Koch’s bacillus – the cause of tuberculosis – was identified in 1882, earning the microbiologist Robert Koch the Nobel prize ...

The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: ancient Indian texts that challenge Western categories, yet influenced the course of ...

It is a scoop unquestionably; it is a revelation. As literary mysteries go, the identity of Elena Ferrante was one of the great enigmas in the literary world. Especially in our epoch of over-sharing, ...

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) pursued two main themes in his work, one now familiar, even commonplace in modernity, the other still under-appreciated, often ignored. The ...

What is the purpose of philosophy? David Papineau recently took a stab at this question, and his answer didn’t convince me. He sees continuity from Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle to the ...

A simple list of Isaiah Berlin’s principal beliefs, stripped of the rich detail and nuance that he always supplied, may strike the reader as so obvious as to be banal; yet his positions have not ...

The Times Literary Supplement has been published since 1902 and remains the only weekly standalone literary journal in the world. Readers of the TLS are mature (average age 60), affluent (average ...

Adam Rutherford is a scientist, writer and broadcaster. His most recent book is Control: The dark history and troubling resent of eugenics, 2022 ...

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When I was my students’ age, the idea of an African American literature existing before Richard Wright and Langston Hughes would have been provocative; as an undergraduate I had not heard of ...

The base, the coup, the counter – and what we might expect from a second Trump term ...