The recovery of history’s ‘lost’ women is often associated with the advent of feminism, but, Sophie Smith writes, women’s contributions to Western philosophy have been regularly rediscovered since at ...

To ordinary people in Iran, the fatwa came out of nowhere. The country had just emerged from the Iran-Iraq War and ...

The protests have shown that the American university, which operates more and more as a high-cost degree factory ...

The evening sky on Friday lit up with a bright auroral display. Such phenomena are usually confined to the polar ...

I n Percival Everett’s ​ retelling of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective, the clown suit has been deliberately put on.

An open letter is an unloved thing. Written by committee and in haste, it is a monument to compromise: a minimal statement to which all signatories can agree, or – worse – a maximal statement that no ...