A new collection of essays on our conflicted and prejudiced world by the best-selling author of The God Argument and The Reason of Things

Grayling is particularly good at illuminating the knottiness of moral discourse Sunday Times Grayling writes with clarity, elegance and the occasional aphoristic twist, conscious of standing in that long essayistic tradition that runs from Montaigne and Bacon to Emerson and Thoreau Daily Telegraph If there is any such person in Britain as The Thinking Man, it is A. C. Grayling The Times Grayling is the approachable, upbeat carrier of the Enlightenment torch ... Sensible, articulate and eloquently expressed ... both sides of their argument about the sources of human hope presented with intelligence and vigour Observer

A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society and is a prolific author, whose books include philosophy, ethics, biography, history, drama and essays. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week, and CNN News. Among his recent books are Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggle for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West, Liberty in the Age of Terror, The Good Book: A Secular Bible and The God Argument.