A critical theoretic Marxist dialectical analysis of the World Cup song
Stuart Jeffries: Is Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez's World Cup anthem, We Are One (Ole Ola) throwaway pop or a critique of the global sports myth? Clearly the latter …
Mammon’s Kingdom: An Essay on Britain Now review – David Marquand’s cry of despair
David Marquand's polemic against our selfish society is highly entertaining, if deeply flawed, writes Richard Reeves
Illuminating ideas (and a lot of fun) in a small-town idyll
Where else could you learn the latest black-hole theory, hear unfettered political debate and dance to Hot Chip? Tracy McVeigh reports from the alternative festival at Hay-on-Wye
Four Quartets: TS Eliot’s struggle to make the real world right in a spiritual realm
Roz Kaveney: TS Eliot – part 8: These poems are about old age and regret, but also poetic structure and art. After them, there was nothing much left to say
With the Four Quartets, TS Eliot’s poetic powers trump his mysticism
Roz Kaveney: TS Eliot – part 7: We may find the spirituality of this great work questionable, but the humanity behind it and his continuing brilliance, is not
TS Eliot’s Ash Wednesday – a call to spiritual awareness that falls short
Roz Kaveney: TS Eliot – part 6: As with Dante, this is a poem in which the visions of hell are stronger than the visions of heaven
HowTheLightGetsIn 2014: philosophy, music and thought for all
Festival director Hilary Lawson reveals what to expect at the philosophy and music festival, and how the event will challenge assumptions. Interview by Tom Lamont
Frédéric Gros: why going for a walk is the best way to free your mind
Some of the finest thinkers in history were also enthusiastic walkers. Philosopher Frédéric Gros tells Carole Cadwalladr why we should fall in step with Nietzsche and Kant
TS Eliot: guilt, desire and rebellion at respectability
Roz Kaveney: TS Eliot – part 2: Eliot's revolt from duty, and Unitarian virtue and philosophy, can, in part, be blamed on a culture of repression and ignorance
Pope Francis makes Prospect magazine’s list of top 50 world thinkers
Pontiff is only religious leader in catalogue of public intellectuals, which jettisons last year's winner – Richard Dawkins
The Rev Nick Earle obituary
Other lives: Mathematician and theologian who wrote many books on philosophy and Christianity
Why Christianity was the wrong civil religion for Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – part 4: The state needs common values that its citizens can agree on, argues Rousseau, but Christianity will not do because there are so many non-believers and its doctrines divide opinion
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? – Berlin 2014: first look review
Michel Gondry tries to get to grips with Noam Chomsky's philosophical and linguistic theories in this entertaining, part-animated interview
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: as relevant as ever
Theo Hobson: Jean-Jacques Rousseau – part 1: The philosopher's thought still has the power to challenge our deepest assumptions on identity, religion and the Enlightenment