Did the Earth Move for Galileo?
New books on the great Italian reveal him to have been wiser than many modern scientists
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
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
ONLINE Only: An Important Distinction
Islam isn't Islamism — but Muslims are too quick to defend extremists
Hayek Top Slot Shock
In spite of his reputation, Glenn Beck is introducing huge audiences to high-brow political and economic ideas Television exposure can turn an unheard-of and undeserving book into a bestseller. But could even
Buried History
The war efforts of thousands of allied Muslim soldiers in the two World Wars points to our shared heritage
Adieu to Claret
The spiralling cost of Bordeaux means the wine will soon be the preserve of millionaires and wine journalists alone
It Took a Village
A taxi driver eavesdrops on a conversation between two of Chelsea Clinton's wedding guests
Labor Omnia Vincit
Teaching Latin in primary state schools may be the answer to decling standards in literacy
Come Back, Trollope
Westminster's current inhabitants are perfect fodder for a great political satirist, if only we had one
Journo Listless
‘The image of the newspaperman as a suave but ballsy individual who, whisky in hand, wires copy to a smoke-filled newsroom is now incredibly remote’
Istanbul: Press Freedom Alla Turca
'When Western journalists note in a casual aside that press freedom has experienced certain setbacks under the AKP, they are failing to do justice to the severity of this calamity and its