Edmund Burke was a more complicated thinker than realized

The internet is unusable now

Why universities are making us stupid

The rise of “dumb phones” - Chunky bricks and Noughties flip phones are creeping back into the mainstream, as an antidote to smartphone addiction.

Why Tocqueville Matters

Derek Parfit: The Perfectionist at All Souls

George Eliot’s Marriage Plot

The Cult of Sigmund Freud

AI porn will never be sexy

Social media is taking a dangerous toll on teenage girls

Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros

Bach’s Accidental Masterpiece

Britain’s Empire of Science

The Restoration of the Coffeehouse

Nietzsche in Turin

Ian McEwan and the Mess of Living

The future world order will be decided by the war over semiconductors

Larkin is a love poet who doesn’t trust love

Wittgenstein at War

How TS Eliot Found Happiness

From aardvark to woke: inside the Oxford English Dictionary

Bob Stanley’s pre-history of pop breathes life into a lost musical era

Philosophy’s Gentle Giant

What rocks teach us about the human condition

Michael Moorcock: “I think Tolkien was a crypto-fascist” (2015)

Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history”

Adorno’s damaged life

1922: The year that made modernism

Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan shaped modern politics

George Orwell Outside the Whale

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