Terry Eagleton

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should…

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by…

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back…

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States…

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are…

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that…

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up…

It is in Rousseau’s writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class…

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are…

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of…

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It…

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is ‘The Book…

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past…

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health…

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions…