On March 25, when Lawrence English brought Cruel Optimism to New York venue The Knockdown Center, located on the blurred edge where Brooklyn and Queens meet, for its American debut, he opened the ...

Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming history, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60, is organised around anecdotes rather than arguments. Krishnan is interested not only in ...

Jeremy Bentham died in 1832. Unlike most people, however, the English philosopher decided on a rather unusual posthumous operation. Bentham made instructions in his will, aged just 21, for him to be ...

Washington Gave Bigotry No Sanction. We Should Do the Same Mr. Conservative and the Minister Sorkin Rounds Up the Usual Suspects This Thanksgiving, Heed the Words of George Washington Thanksgiving Day ...

Antony Flew, an English philosopher and outspoken atheist who stunned and dismayed the unbelieving faithful when he announced in 2004 that God probably did exist, died April 8 in Reading, England. He ...

English Philosophers Thought They Had Sloughed Off The Dead Weight Of History, But History Suggests Otherwise. Nikhil Krishnan's intriguing and charming history, a terribly serious adventure: ...