Philosophy
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
