A C Grayling
Articles by A C Grayling
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Education
Universities challenged
- 26 October 2010
- 17 comments
Society needs to have a civilised conversation with itself about its values. But spending cuts threatening the humanities put that in danger.
Books
Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion
- 01 April 2010
- 10 comments
Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs.
Religion
The empty name of God
- 09 April 2009
- 34 comments
'The basic doctrines of the major religions have their roots in the superstitions and fancies of illiterate peasants living several thousand years ago'
Culture
Playing God
- 27 November 2006
- 1 comment
Religious belief is not just a philosophical issue - it divides families and societies. That is why theatre is uniquely placed to explore it
Ideas
NS Essay - 'If we did anything questionable in the war, we should have the maturity to admit it and learn from it'
- 27 February 2006
- 2 comments
The area bombing of civilians by the Allies in the lead-up to 1945 went beyond the limits of a just war, argues A C Grayling. If historians refuse to accept this, they are irresponsible and wrong
Books
We've never had it so good. It has become fashionable to do down the present - whether because of television, consumerism or political correctness. But did things really used to be so much better? A C Grayling stands up for modern life
- 23 January 2006
Plato's Children: the state we are in Anthony O'Hear Gibson Square Books, 239pp, £14.99 ISBN 1903933463 The Retreat of Reason: political correctness and the corruption of public debate in modern Britain Anthony Browne Civitas, 94pp, £9.50
Books
Erotic adventures
- 28 November 2005
Memoirs of My Dead Life George Moore Kessinger Publishing, 312pp, £21.44 ISBN 1417931949
Ideas
NS Essay - 'Religious radicals want to limit our freedoms, so to curb free speech is to give them exactly what they want'
- 18 July 2005
After the events of 7 July, the proposed law to criminalise incitement to racial hatred is even more dangerous, argues A C Grayling. Such laws simply provide weapons for all sides to attack each other
Society
NS Profile - Bernard Williams
- 02 September 2002
Harold Wilson's philosopher of porn is our greatest thinker on ethics, offering a vision of truth as triumphing over all. Bernard Williams profiled by A C Grayling
International Politics
Fighting is a last resort
- 12 August 2002
Aquinas defined the just war. Few conflicts have ever met his criteria
