On March 25, when Lawrence English brought Cruel Optimism to New York venue The Knockdown Center, located on the blurred edge where Brooklyn and Queens meet, for its American debut, he opened the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Entrance to the Bodleian Library school of philosophy, Oxford. Walid Nohra/Shutterstock Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming ...

Jeremy Bentham died in 1832. Unlike most people, however, the English philosopher decided on a rather unusual posthumous operation. Bentham made instructions in his will, aged just 21, for him to be ...

English Philosophers Thought They Had Sloughed Off The Dead Weight Of History, But History Suggests Otherwise. Nikhil Krishnan's intriguing and charming history, a terribly serious adventure: ...