A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution. Why does reason mat

Examines the ways that our rich literary tradition in the West deals with the questions of reason and faith.

Joining the ancient debate over the roles of reason and appetite in the moral mind, In Praise of Desire takes the side of appetite. The book makes the claim tha

This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of cele

Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of "In Praise of Idleness," a collection of essays in