21 Jun 2022 - 1:01am

Why we need fairies Our perception of the world has lost all wonder

Salley Vickers

16.05

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s war on philosophy He preferred the 'rough ground' of everyday existence

Terry Eagleton

09.05

Dr Strange and the perils of the multiverse Counterfactuals are rarely helpful in a political crisis

Dorian Lynskey

05.04

How philosophy sacrificed the truth Victimhood is more important than biological reality

Kathleen Stock

08.02

Why comedians stopped being funny It's safer to become a podcaster than tell a good joke

Dorian Lynskey

26.01

The importance of Bronze Age Pervert The radical Right flourishes in an atomised world

Murtaza Hussain

20.01

Trashy Tories should read Roger Scruton His conservatism puts our politicians to shame

Giles Fraser

20.12

How we destroyed The Matrix Incels and trans activists are both fooled by its myth

Dorian Lynskey

20.10

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

Boyd Tonkin

24.09

The West has lost its roots The less moored our identities become, the louder we shout about them

Paul Kingsnorth

23.07

The emptiness of open letters With enough signatories, any demand will be fulfilled

Daniel Skipper Rasmussen

21.07

The surprising legacy of the neocons Post-liberals would rather forget their intellectual predecessors

Oliver Wiseman