Some of you will have attended the recent webinar with Prof Jeffrey Kripal talking about his new book The Flip. He defines a ‘flip’ as an...

So-called ‘conspiracy theorists’ are the new heretics and dissidents. This weaponised and derogatory term was invented by the CIA in the...

In the summer of 1983, I spent a day of strange and stark contrasts, visiting Goethe’s elegant house in Weimar in the morning and...

I spent the summer of 1973 at the University of Grenoble, a delightful city that was also the home of Hector Berlioz. One of the books I...