Ideas

Passing the time

Peter Cave is irritated by Gallic philosophy

Jim Herrick reconciles the mystic and the rational

Julian Baggini on a new book of rationalism

The Libet Experiments showed we have no control over our actions. Or did they? Alfred Mele still managed to write a critique of them

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

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

Laurie Taylor has an appetite for the incomprehensible

Frances Crook on Peter Hitchens' History of Crime

Paul Barker salutes the suburbs

Finn Bowring on freedom and constraint