India is confronted with the phenomenon of the West’s epistemic colonialism, where physical settlement has been replaced by narrative dominance.

When doctoral researchers describe a widening participation programme as a ‘safe space’, reflecting that they might never have pursued a doctorate without it, it invites closer examination ...

A teenage girl named Billy is having sex for the first time – sex she consented to verbally, but reluctantly. She had to be talked into it. It’s ...

The French writers of the postwar era argued that the author’s life is irrelevant. Emily Eakin’s lively new book proves them ...

As a student, Emily Eakin was fascinated by Derrida, Foucault and their peers, but found them incompatible with the real ...

Mankind has a long-held fascination for spinning objects. The oldest known rotating tops, discovered in modern-day Iraq, were ...

I've spent 17 years writing about how the human body builds fitness, and I distilled the most important lessons into a new ...

French theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side.

In May last year, US President Donald Trump established the Religious Liberty Commission. Last month, timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding, it released a ...

One hundred years after his birth, the French philosopher remains hugely influential, both revered and reviled for ideas that eerily anticipated our day. By Emily Eakin Emily Eakin is a senior editor ...