Ideas

John Gray’s Bad Faith

Finn Bowring on freedom and constraint

Adam Kuper debunks the myths which inform campaigns for indigenous people's rights

Jonathan Derbyshire on Steven Lukes' broadside against relativism

Finn Bowring argues that biotechnology threatens the very meaning of humanity.

Fred Inglis on postmodern pedantry and the death of irony

Raymond Tallis revisits the big question: what makes humans special?

Michael Rosen ponders the smug pronoun

Tzvetan Todorov's Imperfect Garden, reviewed by AC Grayling

John Gray's Straw Dogs reviewed by Ian Hargreaves

To give or not to give? Julian Baggini is philosophical about charity