10/25/2025 - 1:00am

Climbing ‘The Magic Mountain’ today Thomas Mann’s novel is an antidote to nihilism

Morten Høi Jensen

03.09

Kamala’s seductive amnesia

Jacob Howland

08.07

Macron has dynamited French politics Even with Le Pen neutralised, other threats lurk

Hugo Drochon

03.05

The delusion of having a meaningful job Can you really be 'passionate' about digital marketing?

Stuart Whatley

06.12

Lady Chatterley isn’t sexy D.H. Lawrence didn't champion the Sexual Revolution

Nicholas Harris

23.11

The workers were never ignorant Eighty years on, Beveridge's 'Giant Evils' remain

Terry Eagleton

15.11

Bob Dylan has no philosophy His new book is the work of a talker, not a thinker

Geoff Dyer

25.08

How woke is Nietzsche? He believed in self-ID before it was cool

Giles Fraser

14.01

How our universities became sheep factories Our great institutions are now instruments of political indoctrination

Arif Ahmed

07.01

Michel Houellebecq is a hopeless romantic He's cynical about sex, yet prey to the potential of love

Jarryd Bartle

07.12

Is Emmanuel Macron a superman? Nietzsche's prophesies are coming true in France

Blake Smith

20.10

Can Steven Pinker save the world? Behaving rationally doesn't always make sense

Boyd Tonkin