Bridge is an improbable solitary vice, but I confess to its lonely pursuit. I no longer play, but I remain an obsessional reader of bridge columns and books. I also sneak away for one-handed sessions...

AC Grayling surveys the essential literature from Homer to Thubron

The new Ireland and its booming metropolis-Europe's capital for six months

 

Microsoft has just put money into an upmarket new webzine. It's called Slate, as in "How's your latest project coming along?" "'s' late." Slate is an American political/current affairs magazine...

Give us a child until the age of seven and we will have it for life." From personal experience I can tell you the Jesuits are not always right about that; but clearly Microsoft, Research Machines and...

 

Taylor E Dark spent a year teaching at a Russian university where he found a student generation politically apathetic but entrepreneurially vigorous. They even miss classes to go on business trips

The assumption that modern youth is truculent and lacking in respect for "elders and betters" rarely survives a visit to a college or, in my most recent experience, a lyc?e. The wary modernisation of...

AC Grayling surveys the essential literature from Plato to Bernard Williams