Times Literary Supplement (December 11, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The tragic Queen of France’ – The legend of Marie Antoinette; William Dalrymple’s Indian empire; Mary Beard – A night at the museum; The coffee house scientist; What Kindle readers want…
by Rick Lewis
Lost Hegel lecture notes now being digitized • Professor Ted Honderich dead at 91 — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Seán Radcliffe asks, has Plato’s Allegory of the Cave been warning us of social media for 2,400 years?
Rosemary Twomey questions our online epistemology.
Amrit Pathak gives us a run-down of the foundations of modern atheism.
Andrew Likoudis questions the basis of some popular atheist arguments.
Zdeněk Petráček looks at the biggest problem facing monotheism.
Philip Goff grasps hold of the problem of evil and comes up with a novel solution.
Mohsen Moghri gives a Godless but principled response to the problem of evil.
Musa Mumtaz meditates on two maverick medieval Muslim metaphysicians.
Ignacio Gonzalez-Martinez has a flash of inspiration about the role metaphors play in creative thought.
Shashwat Mishra explores the limits of perception via the Molyneux problem.
Jimmy Alfonso Licon wonders whether pretending there’s a Santa is naughty or nice.
John P. Irish travels the path of a revolutionary mind.
Each answer below receives a random book. Apologies to the entrants not included.
Robert Stern talks with AmirAli Maleki about philosophy in general, and Kant and Hegel in particular.
Thoughts on Thoughts on Thoughts • Get Smarter • Decoding A Decoding • A Swift Rebuttal • Basic Arithmetic • A Message on Meaning
by Terence Green
by Matt Qvortrup
Raymond Tallis kicks immaterialism into touch.
Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to avoid becoming irate.
T.W.J Moxham reads Slavoj Žižek’s little book of Hegelian horrors.
Christopher John Searle recommends a study of which moves are allowed in logical arguments.
Becky Lee Meadows considers questions of guilt, innocence, and despair in this classic Christmas movie.
Times Literary Supplement (December 4, 2024): The latest issue features ‘HIs Other Country’ – The James Baldwin revival continues in the 100th anniversary year of his birth. A trickle of biographies has become a flood, and the causes for which he stood, racial equality and gay rights, speak to the times.
Record-label scouts chase ‘strange compositions’
A video game challenges the history of Argentina
By Mia Levitin
Times Literary Supplement (November 27, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Mutti Knows Best?’ – Angela Merkel’s triumph and tragedy; Gaughin’s uncensored thoughts; Gladiator II; C.S. Lewis’s Oxford and “The Magic Mountain” at 100…
Times Literary Supplement (November 20, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Uncommon Reader’ – Virginia Woolf in literary tradition..
Virginia Woolf as reader, writer and literary inspiration By Sophie Oliver
The unravelling of Vivien Leigh’s marriage amid her mental health breakdown By Vanessa Curtis
History as an ideological battleground By Niall Ferguson
How the world’s most famous thinker fell out of fashion By Mark Sinclair
Times Literary Supplement (November 13, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Books of the Year’ – TLS writers choose their favourites…
A cellist is haunted by the history of her instrument By Norma Clarke
Frank Auerbach and his visions of north London By Rod Mengham
A spectacular production of Offenbach’s opéra fantastique By Paul Griffiths
Times Literary Supplement (October 30, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Scare Stories’ – On modern horror. Asked why he liked horror films, or terror films as he preferred to call them, Kingsley Amis wrote: “like Mark Twain on a dissimilar occasion, I have an answer to that: I don’t know”. He viewed horror as purely “harmless” entertainment. That explanation might satisfy teenage addicts, but moralists, psychologists and literary critics are inclined to examine the bloody entrails of the genre to divine deeper truths.
Taking the British Revolution out of the Restoration’s shadow By Jonathan Fitzgibbons
The decades before horror became respectable By Mark Storey
How Mary Oliver ‘encourages us to believe’ By Rory Waterman
An Australian vision of the eco-apocalypse By Tom Seymour Evans
Times Literary Supplement (October 16, 2024): The latest issue features ‘A world away from K-pop -The Nobel laureate Han Kang, Sylvia Plath’s final say; Alan Hollinghurst gets Brexit done; The dictotor’s treadmill; Keeping the Warburg weird…
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