The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them?

Take a kaleidoscopic journey through the early history of film, inspired by an enduring fascination with motion and form ...

The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly ...

Empathy, the sharing of feelings with another person and consequently caring about them, is typically a virtue in our society. ‘I hear you’ and ‘I feel your pain’ are said with a sense of compassion ...

is assistant professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History (2016). He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. In the 13th ...

With the publication of Orientalism in 1978, Edward Said would become one of the most influential scholars of our era. The book transformed the study of the history of the modern world, as it offered ...

It’s a question that’s reverberated through the ages – are humans, though imperfect, essentially kind, sensible, good-natured creatures? Or are we, deep down, wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, ...

Everyone is panicking about the death of reading. The statistics look damning: the share of Americans who read for pleasure on an average day has fallen by more than 40 per cent over the past 20 years ...

is a stipendiary lecturer in mathematics at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. She did her DPhil at the University of Oxford. It is a hot July day in London and I take the bus to Bloomsbury. I ...

Skadden, less hampered by the pretentions of its WASP competitors, decided to broaden its search. Black and Asian, ...

We shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the notion that AIs could possess some form of consciousness, argues Jonathan Birch, ...

is professor of philosophy at University College London. He is director of the MA in philosophy, politics and economics of health, co-director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre and co-director of ...