Ideas

John Gray’s Bad Faith

Finn Bowring on freedom and constraint

Return of the native

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

Relative Truths

Jonathan Derbyshire on Steven Lukes' broadside against relativism

The future of human nature

Finn Bowring argues that bio–technology threatens the very meaning of humanity.

A better Class of Irony

Fred Inglis on postmodern pedantry and the death of irony

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

Philosophy of Terror

Richard Norman reviews Ted Honderich's take on terrorism

Who’s We?

Michael Rosen ponders the smug pronoun

Freedom From Ghosts

Tzvetan Todorov's Imperfect Garden, reviewed by AC Grayling