Jonathan Edwards was both 'a nemesis and an avatar' of the Enlightenment

Taken at the flood: How Agatha Christie moved with her times

A truth that works: Making sense of the world with William James

Frank Ramsey: A more human philosophy

Strange times: The sui generis Dave Brubeck

How to Be an Emperor: Re-Reading Fergus Millar’s the Emperor in the Roman World

But is it food?: The world of cheap produce and its consequences

Romance versus Realism: The Origins of the Novel

Wired to Care

The privilege of boredom: How philosophy can happen in isolation

The Ghetto and the Mansion

Hilary Putnam: Minds, brains, machines

Feynman: Making the Extraordinary Look Easy

The failure of a mathematical approach to Shakespeare’s authorship

Meeting Mr George: Did Andrew Marvell Spy for the Dutch?

Worlds within a self: vs. S. Naipaul and modernity

Slow Time and Broad Horizons

The private and public lives of Albert Einstein

Reverse of the medal: The posthumous reputation of Patrick O’Brian

Under the Skin: George Gershwin, Then and Now

Hannah Arendt and the hierarchy of human activity

The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy

The Ways of Dog to Mann

Arch fiends in Paradise: What happens when lexicographers fight

Prime Minister of the World

Architect of His Own Downfall

The moment of embalming: T. S. Eliot’s love letters – a report from the archive

Arnold Schoenberg: Beauty and horror

Avicenna: The Leading Sage

Cantata for the railroad: How art and technology created a united continent

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