Who will win? Probably Hollywood

From the start British imperialism was about loot, not spreading civilisation

Even before the digital age, book-lovers were always prone to distraction

Mathematician Caucher Birkar won by a landslide—but who else made the top ten?

Interestingly, the names conjured were strikingly different from the kind of thinkers voted into our top 10

Fighting fake news could be ever harder than the Cold War

Traditionally tolerant, a new form of essentialism has gripped parts of the left

The director casts a humane eye on modern Japan

When a honeymoon goes wrong

A new book on the Ottoman Empire's relationship with contemporary Christians reveals a notable degree of cultural exchange and debate