The other side of the street: Laurie Taylor interviews Stan Cohen
Sociologist Stan Cohen, who died on 7 January 2013, spent his life analysing and opposing injustice and inhumanity. In this extended interview from 2004, he talks to his friend and…
Ideas
Baby talk
Jonathan Rée on the scientist in all of us
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
Reader’s digest
Laurie Taylor has an appetite for the incomprehensible
Critical humanism
Book Review: AC Grayling on Hope and Memory by Tzvetan Todorov
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