Why is public debate so shallow, impoverished and pointless? A new book contends that reason has been exiled and replaced by mere reasonableness.
Perhaps, but not before its poverty and corruption disappear and who knows how many decades that will take?
To Kill a Mockingbird is 50 years old, John Robson says it has only improved with age.
Why have so many intelligent people been so dotty about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays?
Poignance, bleakness, compassion, horror: it's all there in this compilation of memoirs and fiction about the family.
A spirited gallop through several hundred years of love, money and adultery.
India may have the best of modern technology and a powerful economy, but it is deeply religious.
The German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was charismatic, courageous and controversial
There is hope for Africa, writes a British journalist, perhaps more hope than for more developed countries.
A defence of rationality and common sense from an Australian mathematician is a must-read as an antidote to post-modernist scepticism.
Unlike the proprietor of Rick's Café Américain in Casablanca, some of his compatriots stayed in Paris.
After 400 pages we still don’t know whether Sarah Palin is a really rogue element in politics or merely aiming for a future in the GOP.
Sarah Palin's book An American Life is suprisingly moving and well worth the read.
Australian academics and activists collaborate in a new book to challenge the sexualisation of girls.
If the chimpanzee genome is 98.6% human, does that mean that chimps deserve 98.6% of human rights?
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