Michael Oakeshott was what in his youth would have been called a card. He was also one of the most original philosophers of his time. Throughout his long life – he died in 1990 in his ninetieth year – ...

The fact that life is a gamble was not something Michael Oakeshott regretted. He liked the uncertainty of the human world and admired people who embraced it wholeheartedly. In one of the last ...

The treasure was originally linked to Phase XIIIA, part of the early Middle Bronze Age. If accurate, it would mark the oldest known example of silver used as currency in the southern Levant. However, ...