Immanuel Kant

Clerical skulduggery on the far borders of 1830s Germany

30 August 2025 4:00 am

The Barchester Chronicles it isn’t, but this short and lively account of one of history’s footnotes reminds us that the culture wars existed long before TikTok and Twitter

Emilie du Châtelet – a lone voice among Enlightenment thinkers

4 January 2025 9:00 am

The brilliant physicist’s warning to her contemporaries not to carry respect for great men to the point of idolatry fell on deaf ears