Our Superman in Havana
The great man of letters was better at holding a debate than his drink
Interpenetration
The utopian Labour peer's new science of happiness is doing wonders for its inventor
The Genius of Geometry
David Brooks is political flavour of the month this side of the Atlantic, so in thrall is Westminster to Barack Obama
The Sublime and the Beautiful
Two summer exhibitions at the National Gallery throw light on heaven and earth
The Longest Journey Will Always Lie Ahead
The last of the wartime travel writers, Patrick Leigh Fermor, may have departed the scene, but the genre he graced is still thriving
Shock Value
For all the Arts community's grandstanding about its political value, none of its number was brave enough to protest the late, great M.F. Husain's
Cuddly or Creepy?
Ed says he loves your children as much as you do: a claim at once vacuous and disturbing
Putting A Value On Human And Animal Life
The Australian philosopher Peter Singer and the Oxford theologian Nigel Biggar discusses genocide, infanticide, euthanasia, animal rights and God with the Editor of Standpoint,