Denis Dutton is the founder and editor of the hugely popular website Arts & Letters Daily, named by the Guardian as the best website in the world. He also founded and edits the journal Philosophy and Literature and is a professor of philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury,...

We may be genetically predisposed to appreciate listening to Sinatra or staring at a Seurat.

Joseph Brodsky, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, considered the advocacy of poetry as synonymous with the advocacy of human uniqueness.

A critical look at Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, the Mitchell Report, and the adulteration of American sports.

Popular Russian novels as symbols of liberty and freedom.

In this Bradley Lecture, Gordon S. Wood discusses Thomas Jefferson's role in the creation of the idea of equality and the impact which this concept has had on American society.

A Bradley Lecture onthe continuing relevance of the study of Machiavelli to modern politcs.