Academic Folly

Why Bryan Magee's Memoir Was Pulped

The Curious Tale of a Libel Action

Nov 23 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Bertrand Russell and the Missile Crisis

How Bertrand Russell foretold the end of the world

Nov 16 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Russell vs. Ryle

A philosophical spat, played out in the letters pages of The Times newspaper

Oct 26 •

Jeremy Stangroom

On Sociobiology, Edward O. Wilson, and a Pitcher of Water

A blast from a science war of the past.

Aug 31 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Michel Foucault's Iranian Folly

How Foucault got the Iranian revolution wrong.

Aug 10 •

Jeremy Stangroom

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