What makes a genius? Since at least the 19th century, some have said it is down to genetics, while others… Read more Financial Times: How to create a golden age

What makes a genius? Since at least the 19th century, some have said it is down to genetics, while others… Read more Financial Times: How to create a golden age
“Austria comes alive on my divan,” said Berta Zuckerkandl, and this was an understatement. An influential journalist and art critic,… Read more Standpoint Magazine: Viennese rooms with a point of view
Jewish communities have suffered a spate of horrifying anti-Semitic attacks on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet survival has always… Read more Wall Street Journal: In a Concentration Camp, Dreams of a Café
On a recent visit to the Royal Academy, I noticed a tall, elegantly dressed man who spent quite some time… Read more Standpoint Magazine: Ironies of Ideology
“Street art—you mean vandalism? No, thank you.” That was the response of a friend when I invited him to join… Read more First Things Magazine: Taking Art Off the Street – Museums are giving street art a home, but at what cost?
Tucked away between office buildings by Euston station is where I found the Camden People’s Theatre. It’s a little place… Read more Times Literary Supplement: Whose London is it anyway?
I recently went to a public lecture at LSE hosted by the Forum for European Philosophy. The discussion was entitled… Read more Times Literary Supplement: Does philosophy have to be obscure?
One of the 20th century’s main advocates of high-rise tower blocks was the architect Ernő Goldfinger. To address the acute… Read more Standpoint Magazine: Wholesome homes
At first glance, The Attack of the 50ft Women, by Catherine Mayer, looks like a sequel to Naomi Alderman’s Baileys… Read more Jewish Chronicle: The Attack of the 50ft Women – Driving on equality street
“The public culture needs to be nourished and sustained by something that lies deep in the human heart and taps… Read more Times Literary Supplement: Book Review of Martha Nussbaum’s “Political Emotions”