Identity crisis
Stressing racial differences leads to separatism, argues Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Ideas
Uncommon decency
We must reclaim the language of human rights, says Conor Gearty
Hare brained
Nina Power reviews Zeno's Tortoise
Editorial: Top Marx
What has happened to Marxism? And in particular, the angry passionate British Marxist intellectuals, who used to so enliven politics in the '60s and '70s?
Culture’s revenge: Laurie Taylor interviews Stuart Hall
Disillusioned but not defeated, Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about the limits of liberalism
Spinoza the atheist
This reconsideration by Steven Nadler is the first in a series on philosophers who have particular, if sometimes unacknowledged, significance for humanists.
Fail better
Nina Power says the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth is worth celebrating
Meme Wars (part 1)
Evolution cannot explain culture: there are limits to the uses of Darwinism, says Adam Kuper
Meme Wars (part 2)
Natural selection applies to everything. Ideas evolve just as life does, says Susan Blackmore
Intelligent design
Jonathan Derbyshire witnesses the strange death of the public thinker