In the Loopy
'The Sexual Politics of Meat' is a dotty book, but a dangerous book too
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The Serpent in His Own Eden
Paul Gauguin forged the myth of himself as a South Seas primitive — but his painting was not just a pose
Tea Party Politics
‘Why do grown men in the Tea Party dress up as George Washington?’
Did the Earth Move for Galileo?
New books on the great Italian reveal him to have been wiser than many modern scientists
How Foes become Mates
The political situation in Russia transformed the sulphurous relationship between Karpov and Kasparov
Do the Times Require a Conyers Middleton?
He is an 18th-century deist with a message for today's aggressive atheists: religion has a social value, and saves us from the return to a Hobbesian state of nature
Xinjiang: Taming China’s Wild West
'The Chinese government is destroying the mud-brick maze of traditional Kashgar to cement control over its rebellious Turkic natives. Uighurs are terrified that by mid-century they will have become the Apache or