The Norwegian, 34, was defending his championship titles in New York on Friday when the chess governing body made the request ...

Schopenhauer laments that “nothing is so persistently and constantly misunderstood as idealism, since it is interpreted as meaning that the empirical reality of the external world is denied ...

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) lived through an era of great political turmoil, but previous assessments of his political thought have portrayed him as a pessimistic observer with no constructive ...

Our basic sense of right and wrong appears to be the product of blind evolution. The hard question is how unsettling that ...

I’m like one of those deranged soldiers they find on some remote island still fighting a war that’s ended decades ago,” he ...

Ms Bradley said it would be “simply unacceptable to have a ‘pay to play’ culture around music education in Scotland”. She ...

TO show the semantic power of the three rhetorical devices that we have taken up the preceding columns — namely the ...

Teachers’ leaders have raised fears that school music lessons could be a “soft target” for councils making funding cuts in the coming year.

Albert Einstein loved life — and women. Letters that are now being auctioned at Christie's bear witness to this.

The lyricist Ira Gershwin outlived his composer brother by more than 40 years, but never quite escaped George’s shadow.

We gaze upon our children and envy their lightness of being, like snowflakes tumbling in the wind, caught in the fragile beauty of their brief dance before the hard edge ...