Book Review: Homo Deus
/The author of the popular-science hit Sapiens returns with a book that looks not to humanity's distant past but rather to its immediate future.
Read MoreBook Review: Cosmosapiens
/A sweeping new overview of the sciences has big ambitions - and some odd sticking points
Read More'Tis the Season
/Years after the "New Atheism" heyday, a new book by an old hand takes up the atheist cause with renewed urgency.
Read MoreBook Review: Islam and the Future of Tolerance
/A polite conversation by two intellectuals about an explosive subject: the rise of militant Islamic groups throughout the world, and the world's response
Read MoreBook Review: Self and Soul
/A spirited defense of humanist intangibles in a culture obsessed with material gain
Read MoreBook Review: Voltaire's Revolution
/For the better part of a century, Voltaire waged a sometimes solitary battle against the iniquities of organized religion. A great new book brings together fresh translations of some of the philosopher's most biting works.
Read MoreBook Review: American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
/American senator, author, and statesman Daniel Patrick Moynihan's complex and constantly-evolving political philosophy is the subject of a pointed new book
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Abelard in Four Dimensions
/If you're expecting Heloise to make an appearance in this captivating work of scholarship, you'll be disappointed - but not for long, since scholar John Marendbon manages quite well without her
Read MoreBook Review: The Silence of Animals
/The popular philosopher returns to the ideas that made him famous: that man is an animal, that optimism is misguided, and that the very idea of progress is just a re-heated left-over from the zeals of Christianity.
Read MoreBook Review: Commentaries on Plato
/Marsilio Ficino's enormous commentary on the Parmenides of Plato receives a fantastic scholarly edition from - who else? - Harvard's I Tatti Renaissance Library
Read More