Hopeful Pessimism (Princeton University Press 2025) by Mara van der Lugt ...

As big questions go, you can’t get much bigger than “What is the meaning of life?” It is a question that is often modified ...

The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About? (Oxford University Press) by Nick Spencer and Hannah ...

Think of a mystery musical instrument. If a physicist is told the loudness of the sound it makes at every possible frequency, in principle they can use this information to figure out the shape of the ...

Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (University of Minnesota Press) by Jordan S. Carroll Right-wingers are usually seen as political advocates for the past, associated with ...

“Truth’s a menace, science is a public danger,” says Mustapha Mond, the “Controller” in Aldous Huxley’s iconic dystopian novel Brave New World. “That’s why we so carefully limit the scope of its ...

London's Soho in 1976 The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life (Atlantic Books) by Hugo Greenhalgh Meet George Leo Lucas. At the turn of the 1970s, he is a middle-aged civil servant in ...

Cecilia Payne realised that the Sun and stars are primarily hydrogen and helium - only for a man to take credit for the discovery Cecilia Payne, Harvard's first female professor, at the College ...

All over Britain, shopping centres are closing down. Can these retail paradises be replaced by new public spaces?

Mansour Omari smuggled out the names of Assad regime prisoners scribbled onto scraps of cloth. Portrait by Richard Ansett Mansour Omari is a Syrian human rights defender, journalist and torture ...

Hillsong United perform in California. Credit: Justin Higuchi /CC 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (Oxford University Press) by ...

The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power and People (Princeton University Press) by Paul Seabright Not long ago, religion seemed to be in terminal decline. But, as Paul Seabright ...