On Being an Essayist
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
A Brain of Two Halves
The Master and his Emissary — The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
Rio’s Heart of Darkness
The World cup in 2014 and the 2016 Olympics are an incentive and an opportunity to address inequality and drug-related violence in Rio de Janeiro. Will the state try to heal the
Travels with Tocqueville
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Bush was Right
The resurgence of al-Qaeda under Obama has proved that we were right to go to war in Iraq
Veiled Threat
It is up to religious communities, not the government, to face up to the oppression that the niqab represents
It’s All Ours
Why should we, as is de rigueur, believe the notion that all property is ultimately collective?
KGB TV
Russia Today's PR offensive is thinly-veiled Kremlin spin
Don’t Fear the Greeks
Greek mythology is making a welcome comeback in print and on the silver screen
I Vow to Thee
Marriage should be celebrated as a triumph of individual optimism over institutionalised cynicism
Don’t Fear the Greeks
Standpoint magazine
It’s All Ours
Late in 2009, Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative parliamentary candidate and environmental adviser, gave a speech in which he sought to answer the question, "How should we spend our collective wealth?"