Sleep was once about the spiritual, the Greek gods, the Sandman. Now it’s about physiology, medicalization, insomnia. Philosophical consequences abound... more »
To be 50 is to feel like an old coin: "worn – worn down and worn out.” Or so memoirists of a certain age tell us. When did midlife become a problem to be solved?... more »
Wagner's The Ring Cycle is not the answer to life in a post-religious world, says Roger Scruton. But it asks real questions, and it shows us one way of confronting them... more »