A genius and his pipe

Living opposite Hitler In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was ...

Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

Contempt for democracy and the perversion of classical liberalism

“Spirit of Stalin, come and talk to me.” If you want to communicate through a medium with the Soviet Union’s feared dictator, Joseph Stalin, you can find a site on the internet via Russian Google. The

Muriel Spark led an implausible life. Born into straitened circumstances in Edinburgh as the First World War came to an end, she shone at school before moving to one of the least glamorous corners of