Category Archives: Magazines

Philosophy Now Magazine – February/March 2025

PHILOSOPHY NOW MAGAZINE (January 31, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Political Philosophy For Our Times’ – Was Machiavelli really so bad?…

Too Late To Awaken by Slavoj Žižek

T.W.J Moxham reads Slavoj Žižek’s little book of Hegelian horrors.

Exploring Atheism

Amrit Pathak gives us a run-down of the foundations of modern atheism.

London Review Of Books – February 6, 2025 Preview

Image

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (January 31, 2025): The latest issue features David Runciman on President $Trump; Versions of Hamas and Toril Mok on Vigdis Hjorth…

Tom Stevenson: Hamas: The Quest for Power by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell

Jessie Childs: The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege by Simon Parkin

Michael Wood: At the Movies: ‘The Brutalist’

Alex de Waal: How to Measure Famine

Michael Dobson:

White People in Shakespeare: Essays in Race, Culture and the Elite edited by Arthur LittleShakespeare’s White Others by David Sterling BrownThe Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare while Talking about Race by Farah Karim-Cooper

Katherine Rundell: Why children’s books?

The Economist Magazine – February 1, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (January 30, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Revolt Against Regulation’….

Milei, Modi, Trump: an anti-red-tape revolution is under way

Done right, deregulation could kick-start economic growth

By cutting off assistance to foreigners, America hurts itself

Donald Trump’s chaotic aid freeze makes his country weaker

The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama

The Chinese model-maker has panicked investors. But it is good for the users of AI

Science Magzine — January 31, 2025

Go to Science

SCIENCE MAGAZINE (January 30, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Living With Tigers’ – Restoring a top predator across India…

Laser-powered accelerators, compact and cheap, get real

Encouraging lab results bolster plans to harness a new kind of particle accelerator in x-ray sources

In India, a debate over the benefits of gas stoves

Surprise finding of few health payoffs complicates push to replace biomass fuel

Banished from CERN, Russian physicists regroup

Breakdown in collaboration leads many scientists to look to domestic projects—and to China

Global study shows species are losing diversity

Even in some common species, the genetic variation key to resilience is slipping away

Science: Nature Magazine – January 29, 2025 Preview

Volume 637 Issue 8048

NATURE MAGAZINE (January 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Deposit Accopunt’ – How brine evaporation left sodium salts on the asteroid Bennu…

Seaweed farms dish up climate benefits

First estimate of its type shows that cultivated seaweed beds can accumulate as much carbon as some natural ecosys

The surprising link between muscle and the reproductive system

Myostatin, which blocks muscle development, unexpectedly has an effect on ovulation in female mice.

Rubbish under the floorboards exposes secret snacking in colonial Australia

Seeds, fruit stones and other remnants hidden in a Sydney barracks in the nineteenth century show residents’ deviation from the standard diet.

Columbia Business Magazine – Spring 2025

COLUMBIA BUSINESS MAGAZINE (January 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘AI: The Human Edge’ – The Winter/Spring 2025 Columbia Business Magazine delves into technology’s impact on society, the future of work, and the achievements shaping modern business.

The Future of Work Begins Now

The potential for AI to enhance workplaces is vast—as long as we remember the humans that make this enhancement fully possible.

Prospect Magazine – March 2025 Preview

Prospect Magazine - Britain's leading monthly current affairs magazine

PROSPECT MAGAZINE (January 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Labour vs Reform’ ; In Defense of Angela Merkel; Is Elon Musk the new Henry Ford…

Labour vs. Reform: the fight for our future

Faragism and Starmerism are fronts in a global struggle between insurgent nationalism and cautious defenders of the old political order. For British democracy to triumph, the prime minister must find his voice

The press lobby is going feral—ignore it

Given the pressures of 24-hour news, lobby journalists cannot plausibly understand policy detail. Their skillset is to nose around and cause trouble

Inside the supply chain: my week on a container ship

Vessels like the Timca are the unnoticed worker ants of our global economy, bringing us the cheap food, clothes and household items we

Times Literary Supplement – January 31, 2025 Preview

Image

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (January 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Outsider Art’ – The life and work of John Singer Sargent; American Sex; The English country house…

The Progressive Magazine – February/March 2025

The Progressive Magazine - Reporting the truth since 1909. - Progressive.org

THE PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE (January 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Defending Immigrants’; The Colony Problem; Indigenous Behind Bars and Universal Basic Income….

Better Gun Storage Can Prevent Tragedies

Right now, only eight states have laws explicitly requiring safe storage for guns. If we want to save lives, we need an immediate prevention plan. Read more

COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE – January 29, 2025 Issue

COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE (January 28, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Ready, Steady, Go!’ – The wonderful thing about Springers…

Full of the joys of spring(ers)

The non-stop English springer is still our number one working spaniel, reveals Matthew Dennison, as he delves into this enthusiastic, energetic breed

Snake, rattle and roll

Rob Crossan investigates the deeply spiritual origins of that enduring family board-game favourite Snakes and Ladders

Heard it on the radio

The wireless broke new ground as the first form of home-based mass entertainment and is still going strong in the age of the smart speaker, finds Ben Lerwill

Friends with benefits

Nematodes are a natural way to halt the march of all manner of garden pests and Charles Quest-Ritson is a convert

Mould and behold

Josiah Wedgwood was a brilliant businessman with a remarkable social conscience. Tristram Hunt assesses his life and legacy

Catch us if you can

Owain Jones sizes up six of the best as he picks out the players to watch in this year’s Guinness Six Nations rugby extravaganza

Roger Morgan-Grenville’s favourite painting

The conservation campaigner selects a work that inspired his lifelong obsession with seabirds

A Palladian premonition

Richard Hewlings offers a fresh analysis of the architecture at Bramham Park, a highly original West Yorkshire country house

The legacy

Kate Green remembers Robert FitzRoy, the founder of the Met Office whose name lives on in the BBC’s Shipping Forecast

Dear country diary

Paul Fleckney flicks through The Guardian’s Country Diary, which has offered a snapshot of rural life for more than 120 years

Interiors

The best stoves and fireplaces picked by Amelia Thorpe, plus the alternatives to burning logs

Luxury

Hetty Lintell’s top timepieces and James Haskell’s favourite things

Magnificent mahonias

Charles Quest-Ritson makes the case for mahonias, arguing that their pleasantly scented flowers are a seasonal delight

Kitchen garden cook

Melanie Johnson pairs peppery horseradish with salmon fillets

Ring-dove beauteous!

John Lewis-Stempel coos over the much-maligned wood pigeon, that canny, keen-eyed and fast-flying stalwart of our countryside