By Terry Eagleton - 01 April 8:11

Acknowledging that wickedness exists doesn’t mean you have to believe in the existence of Satan. And

By Sophie Elmhirst - 22 March 16:27

A longer version of this week's NS interview

By Anthony Barnett - 22 March 8:37

New Labour wasted an unprecedented opportunity to reform Britain economically and politically and cr

Demonstrators in Beirut in 2010
By Bibi van der Zee - 21 March 10:21

Once in a while, you end up with someone as special as Rachel Corrie.

By Sophie Elmhirst - 20 March 1:28

“Satire is a black-and-white programme with Dudley Moore”

By D J Taylor - 12 March 9:09

“Nice boys” like Nick Kent wrote about the louche stars of Seventies music in a sharp but open-minde

By Slavoj Zizek - 04 March 8:08

Slavoj Žižek on the "brutal racist overtones" of James Cameron's Avatar.

By Mehdi Hasan - 11 February 10:12

Don’t know your Sunnis from your Shias? You are not alone, but their conflict will shape the future

By Ed Husain - 11 February 8:09

Ed Husain is a former Hizb ut-Tahrir member who has
campaigned against the ideology of Islamism. B

By Jonathan Derbyshire - 08 February 9:00

One of the great cultural shifts of the 20th century was the influx of black American intellectuals

New Statesman
By Alyssa McDonald - 04 February 7:28

“We wore little forage caps and looked like the Hitler Youth”

By Alyssa McDonald - 03 February 9:46

A longer version of this week's NS interview with the moral philosopher.

By Alyssa McDonald - 01 February 9:07

“Progressives never know what to do in power” - Susan Neiman, moral philosopher

By Sian Berry - 25 January 13:52

Toaster catch fire? Printer making odd noises? Don’t just throw old stuff away, or hide it in the sh

By Margaret Drabble - 18 January 10:47

The letters of Vincent Van Gogh show a man who craved intellectual companionship yet continued to dr

By Alyssa McDonald - 18 January 10:44

Only those already doing well are likely to gain from the Tories' marriage plans

By Staff blogger - 14 January 17:04

Will financial hardship be the catalyst the NHS needs to reinvent systems and embrace innovation?

By Alyssa McDonald - 11 January 10:19

Contrary to the expectations of some, the internet has boosted the written word

By Alyssa McDonald - 08 January 19:14

Israel's plan to allow would be-donors to jump the transplant queue is ethically dubious

By Richard Dawkins - 17 December 8:06

Darwinian theory was the best idea of all time, but why did it take so long to evolve? And what if w

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