Few who sought to understand Hegel have got the gist of the Geist

A long overdue reassessment of the whiskered High Victorian statesmen whose fervent but nuanced nationalism did so much to forge modern Ireland

Spinoza may be the master thinker to whom we owe modernity itself

The German obsession with Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Hamlet

A new book breathes new life into historical fiction

Are books as physical objects already obsolescent?

The political journey of Paul Johnson, who renounced his socialist ideals to become a standard-bearer of the Right

Rainer Zitelmann is a rare intellectual

The magisterial Benedict XVI, one of the greatest minds ever to be elected pope, has bequeathed a lasting legacy

A new film of a classic First World War novel focuses attention on the pacifism of the German elite that denies Ukraine the means of liberation