It’s basic manners. The British philosopher Michael Oakeshott once said, on a political impulse that he describes as “anti-individualism”: “The determined ‘anti-individual’” is ...

Michael Oakeshott was a philosopher and he talks of present laughter over utopian bliss. That is that we try to find something that we already have, over constantly agitating and wanting something ...

Why did Michael Oakeshott include an essay about aesthetics in his collection of political essays, Rationalism in Politics? This question has puzzled many readers. One commentator described the ...

Matt and Sam answer listener questions for their 100th episode—and hear from friends of the podcast, new and old.

‘Peter Steinberger's Rationalism in Politics makes an important bookend to Michael Oakeshott's famous work of the same title. Unlike Oakeshott, however, Steinberger believes that politics is a ...

In his new book, Galen Strawson argues that in fact it is Locke's critics who are wrong... Michael Oakeshott's Skepticism Aryeh Botwinick The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known ...

The harm done by the vandalisation of the past is all too evident in the contemporary world. Young people, growing up with a ...

The music icon recounts the story in the new documentary 'Paul Anka: His Way,' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival George Pimentel/WireImage, Phil Dent/Redferns Michael ...

Tito Jackson, an original member of the Jackson 5 pop group and brother of the late Michael Jackson, has died aged 70, US media report. An official cause of death is yet to be determined.

Actor Michael Sheen has described how he transformed his look for his "intense" portrayal of the Duke of York in the drama A Very Royal Scandal. The Welsh star used a wig and false teeth for his ...

Michael Strahan got a little overzealous during a segment on GMA on Thursday, causing him to choke in front of his co-stars. Michael, was seated alongside Rebecca Jarvis, George Stephanopoulos ...

Every modern revolution of significance, from 1789 to the present, has produced a diaspora. The exodus from Russia after the end of its ancien régime scattered minds of exceptional brilliance in the ...