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Emmy Noether: the genius who taught Einstein

Is anyone out there?

People person: the greatness of Andrey Platonov

Britain's Universities in Existential Crisis?

Physical cash is dying–and you don't need to be a conspiracist to worry

When the internet becomes unknowable

How we’ve enshittified the tech economy

An analysis of conspiracy promotor Russell Brand

Home schooling can challenge our beliefs about education

The Archive Moles

The (first) post-Elizabethan age

The joy of sets

The amplification of misinformation is threatening democracy

Goethe and Schiller ushered in the romantic age

Franz Kafka’s Dissenting Bodies

Gottlob Frege: The machine in the ghost (2017)

Hammer and Tickle

Patricia Highsmith: Diaries and Notebooks

The experience of colour: A new book reveals the history of colour

Four Oxford women transformed philosophy

Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?

For poor countries, lockdowns cost more lives than they save

The radical power of the book index

Why Robert Burton’s masterpiece speaks to our pandemic age

The secret afterlives of medieval widows

The Irreplaceable Art of Translation

The Hume paradox: how great philosophy leads to dismal politics

The mind of God? The problem with deifying Stephen Hawking

Jean van Heijenoort is one of the strangest philosophers you’ve never heard of

Eyes on the prize: my year as a Booker judge

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