The central question of human existence is whether we have free will, impacting moral codes, legal systems, and life's ...

Two recent books on the Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu speak to our times. While R. Vijaya Sankar’s timely translation of ...

Dame Janet “Jinty” Nelson, who has died aged 82, was a leading historian of early medieval Europe, a professor at King’s ...

What is the usefulness of shells, as in putting them up to one’s ear to detect the poem? Isn’t it infringeable that we carry our mating rituals into teleology? Isn’t it lately that our mates don’t ...

The late Christopher Hitchens’s work was of a piece, good and bad.

The Right Side of History presupposes a direction, a teleology, in which history moves inexorably towards an endpoint, a synthesis, from which it can reset and go again. Next to Hegel, Marx and ...

But that was precisely Lawley’s point: how can mass murder be justified on the basis of a nebulous vision? The question was particularly awkward for Hobsbawm, since he had long since shed Marxist ...