Confucius: the first humanist
God's capitalists
The totalitarian mind
Edmund Burke v Thomas Paine
The (French) revolutionary conscience
Homer's psyche
Ecstasy in the Nunneries
The ineffable Tao
The grief of Cicero
Buddha and the end of craving
Akhenaten: deicidal madman or the first to conceive of a single god?
Thomas Hobbes' forever war
Christine de Pizan: the first feminist?
The unsparing mirror of Niccolò Machiavelli
Descartes' 'proof of God'
Who made our minds...?
Coming soon