A shifting array of hundreds of reproductions showing the art and architecture of two millennia, carefully selected ...

The conflict in West Papua may be the world’s most unequal war: raids on military bases have improved the West ...

I have studied mankind and know my heart; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature has ...

J. Robert Lennon joins Tom to discuss Elmore Leonard’s rules for writers and the ways in which great crime novels will always defy the prescriptions of the genre.

The tulip bubble is the most famous financial bubble in history, but as historical examples go it is also, in one crucial respect, misleading. That’s because anyone can see the flagrant irrationality ...

This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organising them. But because of recent neurological changes in my ...

Balfour with Jewish settlers in 1925. Fifteen years ago I was asked by a young Palestinian student at a meeting in Jenin whether, as a British subject, I felt responsible for the Balfour Declaration ...

What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded? In the early 19th century, for a woman’s cavalier servente to occupy the same household as her husband was not uncommon, ...

The world you see depends on where you start from. Imagine that the centre of the known universe is the Milwaukee-Chicago corridor, on the shores of Lake Michigan, once the heartland and crossroads . ...

Christopher Clark explains why the revolutions of 1848 weren’t failures, and why we should think about them now.

The unconscious is back. Why now? Certainly it ruptured into consciousness in the days and months following 7 October 2023, when the Israeli death machine let loose on Gaza, accelerating into a ...

Chemical reactions reflect human dramas, which reflect celestial movements, which reflect the mind of the divine. The alchemist’s lab work and the philosophy were inextricable: working with material ...