What is bisociation? It's an idea given a name by Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation: You have two things operating on two different planes or according to two different scripts, and at the ...

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was created by Congress in 1983 to promote democracy and democratic institutions ...

This not only provides an opportunity to further appreciate the writings of “big” names such as Luis Bunuel and Arthur Koestler but also an exposure to the extraordinary writings of Pere Calders, John ...

Invited to discuss the political agency of ordinary people, then told our audience couldn’t hear about the world’s most ...

According once more to my father’s statement, on his way to the US Siegmund decided to remain in Britain and, later, to serve in the British Army – according to family folklore, in the same regiment ...

Arthur Koestler and Clarence Darrow argued that human beings never act freely and thus should not be punished for even the most horrific crimes. The latter went on to argue for the abolition of ...

In Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied, Patrick Cockburn explores the fascinating life of his father, journalist ...

As Hobsbawm himself put it, they were not liberals; it was liberalism that had failed. Like Arthur Koestler, an older figure from a similar background, Hobsbawm believed – correctly – that by the ...

Against all odds, the Arthur Smith era of running the Pittsburgh Steelers offense has worked out quite well. For as painfully frustrating as he was as the Atlanta Falcons head coach, Smith has ...