Hobbes the optimist

Three accounts of modern liberalism

The cut-throat politics of Syracuse informed Plato’s thinking

What supernatural folklore reveals about human nature

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern ...

Mankind may be tribal and sociable by nature, yet the ‘bliss of solitude’–a state previously reserved for hermits– is the key to achieving inner peace, says Laura Parker

When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors