Baby talk
Jonathan Rée on the scientist in all of us
Ideas
Rationalism for all?
Julian Baggini on a new book of rationalism
Bad News for Free Will
The Libet Experiments showed we have no control over our actions. Or did they? Alfred Mele still managed to write a critique of them
Ziggy Stardust
Orlando Radice learns about love from the grand old man of sociology
Critical humanism
Book Review: AC Grayling on Hope and Memory by Tzvetan Todorov
Reader’s digest
Laurie Taylor has an appetite for the incomprehensible
Escape from Eden
Raymond Tallis revisits the big question: what makes humans special?
Back to the garden . . .
Roger Griffin considers the responsibility that comes with our special place in the natural world
Leggo Relijan: Laurie Taylor interviews Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson is one of only two living poets to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. Laurie Taylor talks to him about reggae and resistance.
Fogey’s Folly
Frances Crook on Peter Hitchens' History of Crime