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• Michael Sandel webchat – post your questions now

  22 Oct 2014: Webchat: The Harvard professor whose philosophical lectures attract crowds of thousands – and many more besides online – is joining us to answer your questions on Friday 24 October from 11.45am BST onwards

• Revolution by Russell Brand review – soft-soap therapy when we need a harder edge

  17 Oct 2014: His tract is heavy going, light on politics and, in places, beyond parody. Has the leader of the rebellion missed his moment? By David Runciman

• Talking to Terrorists: How to End Armed Conflicts review – an optimistic analysis

  13 Oct 2014: Jonathan Powell’s advocacy of dialogue with Islamist terrorist groups glosses over some fundamental obstacles, writes Jason Burke

• Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda la Grange – review

  9 Oct 2014: An intriguing, bitter chronicle of the decline of the 'world's most famous man', writes Mark Gevisser

• Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence by Karen Armstrong – review

  8 Oct 2014: What causes wars? How have we ended up with the idea that religious doctrine above all is to blame for human conflict? By David Shariatmadari

• Establishment and Meritocracy by Peter Hennessy review – a valuable insider's view

  7 Oct 2014: Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: Will talent and hard work get you to the top, or does class still rule?

• On Liberty review – Shami Chakrabarti exposes the tyranny of the state we’re in

  5 Oct 2014: The civil-rights campaigner inspires and infuriates in a vital book that should get us all arguing, writes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

• Napoleon the Great review – an entertaining and deeply forensic examination

  5 Oct 2014: Andrew Roberts’s life of Napoleon calls for a radical rethink of our attitudes to his aims and achievements, writes Andrew Hussey

• My hero: Robin Cook by John Kampfner

  3 Oct 2014: Robin Cook's refusal to schmooze prevented him from getting to the very top, but he left his mark

• The Shifts and the Shocks by Martin Wolf review – what we've learned from the crash

  2 Oct 2014: This clear-sighted study of the financial crisis raises the question of how to change a corrupted political system. By Richard Toye

• World Order by Henry Kissinger – review

  1 Oct 2014:

  No clash of civilisations or end of history – this argument for a balance of power is the summation of Kissinger's thinking. By Rana Mitter

• Fields of Blood review – an absorbing study of religion and violence

  29 Sep 2014: Karen Armstrong traces the links between religion and violence from ancient Egypt to modern jihad, writes Salley Vickers

• Political Order and Political Decay review – volume two of Francis Fukuyama’s magisterial political history

  28 Sep 2014: The author of The End of History challenges the west’s obsession with liberal democracy, writes Nick Fraser

• Changing everything: how Naomi Klein inspired me

  27 Sep 2014: Owen Jones: By writing for mass audiences beyond the politically active, Naomi Klein intellectually arms and offers hope to those thirsty for alternatives. I know; before No Logo, I was one of them

• Prison Diaries by Denis MacShane review – deserves a sympathetic reading

  27 Sep 2014: The cry 'it's not fair!' runs throughout this book … But the disgraced former minister, jailed for expenses fraud, eventually redeems himself, writes Peter Wilby

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