AC Grayling is a top-ranking professional philosopher -- fellow of an Oxford college, and for many years a professor at Birkbeck. Over the decades he has made plenty of enemies by wrapping himself in the flag of New Atheism. Recently he has lost friends by starting an exclusive "New College of the Humanities" in Bloomsbury, and he will lose still more if he succeeds in opening a free school on the same lines. But he is unfazed by hostility.
MORE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/07/god-argument-humanism-grayling-review
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Humanism's faith in reason represents our best hope
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/03/humanism-religion-reason-our-best-hope?commentpage=1
