Adam Zeman
A dark universe of the imagination
The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars is a wonderful, strange, genre-defying book
The Self Is Everywhere — And Yet Nowhere
In the absence of the soul, selfhood is located in the brain. But can identity be identified?
Anything Dennett Can Do, Scruton Does Meta
Two thinkers offer contrasting but complementary ways of thinking about human nature
What Is It Like To Be Conscious?
Our minds evolved to make life worth living, a new theory claims
A Brain of Two Halves
The Master and his Emissary — The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
The Science of the Soul
Man is three in one: a physical system, a living creature and a conscious mind. But how are they related? Neuroscience gives us some — but not all — the answers
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?