Science? Who Needs It?
In the third year of the reign of the Bablyonian king Belshazzar, the Book of Daniel tells us, the captive Jewish seer Daniel had a vision. A ram with two long horns dominated all the beasts around it and grew ever stronger. But a billy goat with a single massive horn came from the west […]
Semper Invicta
Warsaw Tales, edited by Helen Constantine and selected and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Oxford University Press, 256 pp, £12.99, ISBN: 978-0192855565 1/4 h west of Hohenstein on one of the highest points of the battlefield, the Tannenberg National Monument, 193m (shortly before on the road restaurant Tannenbergkrug with the Tannenberg battle relief, in summer […]
The Case for the State
The largely successful growth of the world economy since 1945, which has seen hundreds of millions of people lifted out of poverty and continuing scientific and technological development, has been based on a system of multilateral global governance developed in the aftermath of World War II. That system of governance, which has been taken for […]
Portrait of Fox
Isaiah Berlin did not share the view that philosophy, and particularly practical philosophy, could be coherently pursued independently of history or, more specifically, of a certain historical self-awareness which springs from a knowledge and appreciation of the past.
A World of Tears
A man finds himself in Antwerp with nothing to do. Then he remembers, among other things, that this is the town where the painter Peter Paul Rubens made his home. At first, this annoys him, because he has no interest whatsoever in the painter. But then he thinks, why not write a book about Rubens.
History in a Shoebox
The fashion writer Hadley Freeman came upon a shoebox when rummaging through her grandmother’s wardrobe. The past it hinted of led her on a hunt through the archives that eventually uncovered the tragic and inspiring history of her Jewish family’s experiences in wartime France.