Goethe’s achievement as artist, scientist and statesman

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

Global markets and the new illiberalism

A Marxist polemic against analytic philosophy

Bernard Mandeville’s defence of private vices with public benefits

Terrorism’s record of failure