©Oliver Polanski
Mar 1, 2013
For advocates of ‘big data’, the answers to many pressing problems lie in the very questions we ask online. But, asks James Harkin, will evidence from the servers of Google and its peers always send us in the right direction?
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Feb 22, 2013
Why are so many people drawn to the restless scepticism of philosopher John Gray? Julian Baggini reviews ‘The Silence of Animals’
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Philip Stephens
Feb 15, 2013
The FT chief political commentator’s review of ‘The Great Convergence’, ‘The End of Power’ and ‘Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century’
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Feb 8, 2013
Andrew Clark on contrasting biographies that show the tension between the composer’s public and private lives
©National Army Museum
Feb 1, 2013
A new history of the first Anglo-Afghan war from 1839 to 1842 describes the consequences of political ignorance and military folly in the region. Review by Anatol Lieven
©Otto Dov Kulka
Jan 25, 2013
The devastating account of a survivor sent to Auschwitz as an 11-year-old boy. Simon Schama reviews ‘Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death’, by Otto Dov Kulka
©Paula Byrne
Jan 11, 2013
As Jane Austen’s best-loved novel turns 200, Paula Byrne looks at its roots in the great events of the author’s time
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Dec 28, 2012
Millions of Indian soldiers served the British during the second world war, yet their experience has largely been forgotten. By Raghu Karnad
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Michael Skapinker
Dec 21, 2012
Three new histories of language and of dictionaries spell out the resistance to linguistic change
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Dec 14, 2012
Alan Ryan’s ‘On Politics’ is a triumph of erudition but focuses too heavily on the west, writes John Keane