George orwell
Letters
Douglas Alexander on the Middle East, Daniel Dennett on Darwinitis, and Michael Beloff on politicising the law
George Orwell, patron saint of hacks
No argument can fail to be enhanced by an Orwell quote. That's why he's become the authority of first resort for people who don't know what they're talking about
Why child protection has gone too far
A new vetting scheme for adults who work with children is too draconian and almost certain to be counter-productive. An example of government getting too big for its boots?
How we got the Soviets wrong
Cold warriors like myself badly overestimated the attractiveness of Marxism
Christopher Hitchens
From '68 agitator to staunch supporter of George W Bush's Iraq war—what explains Hitchens's political journey? I spent three days with him in Washington trying to find out
How to be a public intellectual
The world's fifth best public intellectual on the uses and abuses of the term
Death rows
Should we bring back the death penalty?
The books
AC Grayling surveys the essential literature from Bacon to Orwell