'Free speech is not just about the laws you have, good or bad. It’s about the whole structure of communication.' Timothy Garton Ash recommends the best books to help us think about free speech. buff.ly/3VXmwNy

“It may almost be said, “Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.” Winston Churchill
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Our running list of new biographies:
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We have spoken to more than 90 experts to find the best books on a wide range of psychological topics; emotions, neuroscience, self-help, anxiety, depression, happiness, mental illness, sports psychology and many more. buff.ly/4cXmpaL

Read Caroline Crampton's best books on hypochondria for Cal Flyn's Five Books 👇 A BODY MADE OF GLASS is out now #hypochondria
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Jean-Paul Sartre died #OnThisDay 1980. 'What you see in Sartre represents that tradition in thought pointing to troubling aspects of accepting a world without God.' buff.ly/3UfHJBh

“There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.” Cicero. Our interviews on some notable philosophers down the ages:
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Lincoln was assassinated #OnThisDay in 1865. @Ted_widmer tells why he was once revered “He prevailed in war, deepened democracy, expanded education, strengthened infrastructure. & he most importantly, dealt a fatal blow to slavery.” buff.ly/43Wkgbq …

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“The popular perception of the war, despite all the academic writing, hasn’t actually shifted much since the beginning of the 19th century, which is of a national disaster and almost, in many respects, a greater calamity than the world wars”
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“In politics, if you want anything said ask a man, if you want anything done ask a woman” Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013):
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“I wake up every day and I think about death, dying, things I did every day. It doesn’t go away.”
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“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” Douglas Adams (1952-2001).
Our interview about him is with 𝕂𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕟 𝕁𝕠𝕟 𝔻𝕒𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕤:
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'Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote//The droghte of March hath perced to the roote'
Our interview about the Canterbury Tales is with Marion Turner, Chaucer's biographer:
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Thomas Jefferson was born #OnThisDay in 1743.
“When Jefferson was called ‘a democrat’, it was not a compliment.” historian Andrew Burstein discusses Jefferson's wider political career: buff.ly/4aCXCri …

“Foucault was suspicious of norms derived from the human ‘sciences’ that were used as instruments of illegitimate control”. The best books on Foucault. buff.ly/440uFTp

Historian Archie Brown chooses five books to understand the Cold War and offers some broader reflections on the qualities of good political leadership—then and now. buff.ly/3UdMMlv

'I don’t think you have to agree with the philosophers you read. It’s better if you disagree with them because then you have some kind of dialogue – you don’t read them in a passive way.' Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine. Find a great philosophy book to disagree with. buff.ly/49z86WY