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On marriage
Alain de Botton muses on why a bookish life is a poor preparation for marriage!
In Praise of the Nanny State
Alain de Botton reflects on why freedom has become our ultimate political ideal.
Are museums our new churches?
Alain de Botton asks if museums are our new churches.
The ecological sublime
Alain de Botton gives a philosopher's take on our ecological dilemmas.
'News' and concentration
Alain de Botton on our inability to concentrate.
What humanities should teach
Alain de Botton with a controversial view of the teaching of humanities in universities.
Dear Diary
Joan Bakewell celebrates the art of diary writing.
A Time for Empathy
Joan Bakewell wonders how we recover true empathy in a culture of self-regard.
Extreme Food
Joan Bakewell reflects on our current obsession with ever more elaborate food and cookery.
Living Forever
Joan Bakewell reflects on the process of ageing and the efforts of science to reverse it.
