History of Ideas
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Ancient wisdom, modern foolishness
We learn more about the decline of philosophy in our time than about its rise in antiquity
Refuting the flat Earth fallacy
This rollicking adventure indicts lazy and self-satisfied readings of the past
A love letter to hard-won wisdom
They paid the bills through the tutorials that trained the next generation
The Roots of Conservatism
The Conservative Party’s almost total loss of its historical tradition is the principal reason for its current plight
Seeing the big picture
The most enduring historical work reveals eternal truths about the human condition
The Qing-quisition
Why did the Chinese bureaucracy succeed where the Catholic Church failed?
No place for idealists
A highly informative history of ideas let down by a drumbeat of liberal bias