Iris Murdoch, The Virtuoso Of Virtue
The letters of the great writer reveal affairs with both sexes but also an intense intellectual and spiritual life
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Victorian Values
A "Metaphysical" dining society sets an example for today's academics
Elegy For Gray
The respected philosopher is a false friend of the West
From Gibbon To Pocock
The Decline and Fall author has a worthy successor
Remembering Sir Martin
Britain's most significant Holocaust historian, and Churchill's biographer
Brown v. Oxford
Is the ex-Chancellor's memory playing tricks on him?
Father and son: the Herbert Read I knew
A filial memoir of Britain’s apostle of modernism in art
Zero Sum Game
Is an aptitude for mathematics really an advantage?
Feud Of The Cold Warriors
Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher were the best of foes, as David Caute’s compelling presentation of a decades-long intellectual sparring match shows
Uncritical Theorists Who Misread the Nazis
A new volume of reports by the Frankfurt School shows their number to be at best naive and at worst dangerously misinformed
Pride of the CUP
Cambridge University Press have just published a book by an anti-Zionist, anti-democratic Hegelian elitist. The reason? He has the right enemies
Academic Ideals
Amid the higher costs for university tuition online degree courses are gaining traction. Plato and Cicero would be turning in their grave