What if you had to move – not to another city or country but to either the future or the past? I ran across this Rawlesian thought...

Authoritarianism is on the rise … measurably. Nobel prize-winning economist Angus Deaton has said that one of the most fundamental...

In this article in the Guardian on the subject of famous “Brutalist” buildings under threat from demolition, I note with interest and...

Over dinner in London, a fascinating discussion is launched by my American friend John A., who has been in-country for months but is...

Should you place a hood over the evil Facebook, blast Twitter out of its tree, and rip up all your Instagrams? You really should,...

Excellent Op-Ed in the New York Times from a couple of weeks ago by (my once-upon-a-time teacher) Kwame Anthony Appiah, applying his...

Not an actual picture of the individual in question Fascinating – working in the Russian cave where bones of Denisovans were first found,...

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scanda l (an extraordinarily ugly story for the age of Trump), I have deleted my Facebook account....

After a drive from Seattle to L.A., straight down I-5, I took a more easterly, more scenic route home through a swath of America I’d...

No. I was brought up in the Church of England, and I loved (and still love) the language and the music. But when I was 14 I realized...