Nick Cohen
Nick Cohen is an author, columnist and signatory of the Euston Manifesto. As well as writing for the New Statesman he contributes to the Observer and other publications including the New Humanist. His books include Pretty Straight Guys – a history of Britain under Tony Blair.
Articles by nick cohen
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Politics
Time out with Nick Cohen
- 26 July 2007
- 6 comments
Why Kate Barker, the bogey woman, who wants to build over the green belt might just create a country worth living in
SciTech
Time Out with Nick Cohen: Steve Jones
- 21 June 2007
Darwin had to contend with religious dogma and bad poetry. An illustrious successor is equally frustrated by bad science
Global Issues
Time Out with Nick Cohen: Barbara Stocking
- 28 May 2007
- 9 comments
In what circumstances would Oxfam's head choose to speak plainly, even if telling the truth endangered famine relief?
Photographs by Nick Dawe
Life & Society
Time Out with Nick Cohen
- 02 April 2007
- 3 comments
In his search for England, Julian Baggini expected to find racism, sexism and fear. He found something much more thought-provoking
Life & Society
Time Out with Nick Cohen
- 26 February 2007
- 3 comments
Nick Cohen meets Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge professor of developmental psychopathology.
Politics
How the left went wrong
- 05 February 2007
- 31 comments
In early 2003, the largest co-ordinated protests in history took place against the Iraq war. This, argues Nick Cohen, was a failure of solidarity with the Iraqi people.
Ideas
Time Out with Nick Cohen
- 08 January 2007
Poets and novelists have often tried to describe happiness. Andrew Oswald has found a way of counting it
World Affairs
Time Out with Nick Cohen: Ted Honderich
- 20 November 2006
For Ted Honderich, if you don't give money to Oxfam or the Red Cross, you are killing Africans as surely as if you had deliberately stopped a food convoy reaching a refugee camp
Books
How the left was lost
- 30 October 2006
Murder in Amsterdam: the death of Theo van Gogh and the limits of tolerance
Ian Buruma Atlantic Books, 256pp, £12.99
ISBN 1843543192
Power and the Idealists
Paul Berman Soft Skull Press, 320pp, £15.99
ISBN 1932360913
Politics
Time Out with Nick Cohen: This week Jonathan Franzen
- 16 October 2006
His mother was desperate to be respectable, yet here was Jonathan Franzen, breaking every rule his parents held dear
