Science & Tech Apple vs Facebook: how the war between the Silicon Valley giants is changing tech The growing divisions between Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook could transform our relationship with technology. By Bryan Appleyard
Culture Bob Dylan at 80: Perfect voices don’t survive the years. Dylan’s imperfections adapt By Bryan Appleyard
Mankind’s inner ant: why humans swarm together Like ants, humans have warlike tendencies and colonial ambition. But our capacity to accept others sets us apart. By Bryan Appleyard
The charity algorithm: how Silicon Valley philanthropy turned sour Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen made giving fashionable – but not all their fellow tech entrepreneurs share the same… By Bryan Appleyard
Derek Parfit’s quest for perfection Derek Parfit was one of the world’s most influential moral philosophers. He also took photographs, of the same places,… By Bryan Appleyard
The happiness conspiracy: against optimism and the cult of positive thinking Pessimism gets a bad press, but compulsory positive thinking can be brutally enforced. By Bryan Appleyard
Instant messaging: looking back on the golden age of political advertising Sam Delaney’s Mad Men and Bad Men: What Happened when British Politics Met Advertising captures forty years of politics –… By Bryan Appleyard
When Julian Assange went head to head with Google For Julian Assange, Google is all but an arm of the US state department. For the company’s chairman, Eric… By Bryan Appleyard
The new Luddites: why former digital prophets are turning against tech Neo-Luddism began to emerge in the postwar period. First after the emergence of nuclear weapons, and secondly when it… By Bryan Appleyard
Bryan Appleyard: in defence of the British suburbs Bashing the ’burbs has been a common currency of artists and the intelligentsia, the right and the left, for… By Bryan Appleyard