Ideas

Baby talk

Jonathan Rée on the scientist in all of us

Ziggy Stardust

Orlando Radice learns about love from the grand old man of sociology

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

Critical humanism

Book Review: AC Grayling on Hope and Memory by Tzvetan Todorov

Reader’s digest

Laurie Taylor has an appetite for the incomprehensible

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

A place of greater safety

Paul Barker salutes the suburbs

John Gray’s Bad Faith

Finn Bowring on freedom and constraint