Immanuel Kant
A fatal mistake: Time Being, by Jude Cook, reviewed
Believing she has incurable cancer, Esther Luck arranges her suicide by proxy. But her obliging accomplice misfires disastrously
Clerical skulduggery on the far borders of 1830s Germany
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
The brilliant physicist’s warning to her contemporaries not to carry respect for great men to the point of idolatry fell on deaf ears
