Anything Dennett Can Do, Scruton Does Meta
Two thinkers offer contrasting but complementary ways of thinking about human nature
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
A Sponger’s Ticket To The Finland Station
The irony of Lenin, Victor Sebestyan's biography reveals, is that he was profoundly bourgeois
A Man Of Words, Not Of Deeds
Alexis de Tocqueville: a mediocre minister but a memoirist of genius
A Diaspora Of Pain And Joy
The tale of two Jewish familes in Baghdad and Budapest
Coloured By His Emotions
Howard Hodgkin reduces portraiture to something more essential than physical form
Time To Revisit The Two Cultures
The divide between the arts and sciences will never be fully resolved. But the gap may be narrowing
A Beautiful Waste
The ascendancy of machine over man