From a jewel heist to crumbling galleries, it’s been a dire year for the world’s most visited museum. At least France has woken up to its predicament
Long before Versailles dazzled the world, the Lou…
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Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives ⊕
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The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account
In the early 17th century, the Peruvian city of Potosí billed itself as the “tr…
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‘Portrait of a man’, who was 18th-century Corsican independence leader, goes on sale ⊕
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Painting of Enlightenment figure, whose constitution for the island inspired revolutionaries in US, is up for auction
Thirty years ago, a painting by the British artist Sir William Beechey was sold as…
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Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment | Polly Toynbee ⊕
The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth
Facts are becoming less sacred by th…
Gramophone Classical Music Awards honour Simon Rattle for a second time; Raphaël Pichon’s Bach takes top prize ⊕⊕⊕
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The awards also included a lifetime achievement honour for Sir Thomas Allen and two gongs for Spanish violinist María Dueñas
The Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2025 were announced last night at a c…
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By calling a genocide a genocide, Andor just made its most political point yet ○
Tony Gilroy’s Star Wars show has repeatedly felt like it was ripped from today’s headlines – but Mon Mothma’s radical speech was written two years ago
- Warning: this contains spoilers for episode nine …
12 months ago
Academic freedom in the US is under threat – universities of the world, unite! | Andrew Graham ○
We cannot be neutral with respect to fake news, misinformation or outright lies
In western academia, everything began with philosophy. Ever since, especially since the Enlightenment and the scientific…
13 months ago
The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now | Will Hutton ○
Donald Trump’s actions go against the Enlightenment values that gave rise to the constitution. His might-is-right politics have nothing to offer Britain
The founding fathers of the USA – James Madison…
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