rationalism

The humiliating truth about the way we think

6 June 2026 9:00 am

We overrate our capacity for rational deliberation, says Turi Munthe, when weather, soil, climate and geography are what really determine of our opinions and beliefs

We are all people of faith, whether we realise it or not

18 January 2025 9:00 am

Reason, narrowly framed, will never reveal the world to us. A better path involves reason harnessed to our ethical and aesthetic impulses, argues Alister McGrath

William Blake’s depiction of Urizen, creator and lawgiver

Was Keats right after all?

8 August 2015 9:00 am

Mediterranean crockery has a lot to answer for. It famously spoke thus to John Keats: ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,…