Nietzsche

Why I fell out of love with Wagner

13 July 2024 9:00 am

It’s four years since I gave up opera criticism. The pandemic had struck, I had hit a significant birthday, and…

My thrilling rendezvous with the sausage lady

20 March 2021 9:00 am

One day last week we did a wine run up to Manosque in the foothills of the Alps, leaving early…

tulsi gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard: a Gandhi in Lycra

22 October 2019 2:17 am

Andrew Yang claimed to be surprised that the media dubbed Tulsi Gabbard the first Asian American to run for the…

‘Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche’, Edvard Munch, c. 1906

Nietzsche’s intense friendship with Wagner forms the core of Sue Prideaux’s excellent new biography

29 September 2018 9:00 am

In 1945, with the second world war won bar the shouting, Bertrand Russell polished off his brief examination of Friedrich…

I used to think I was a Nietzschean superman. Now I know I'm just a dad

7 June 2014 9:00 am

In The Wolf of Wall Street, there’s a poignant shot towards the end in which we see an FBI agent…

Lessons from a friend with a tragic flaw

24 August 2013 9:00 am

Character is destiny, according to Heraclitus, and that becomes increasingly clear as you get older and chart the ups and…