Dame Janet “Jinty” Nelson, who has died aged 82, was a leading historian of early medieval Europe, a professor at King’s ...

The late Christopher Hitchens’s work was of a piece, good and bad.

The Right Side of History presupposes a direction, a teleology, in which history moves inexorably towards an endpoint, a synthesis, from which it can reset and go again. Next to Hegel, Marx and ...

With this overarching sense of Barns-Graham’s artistic personality, Cousins avoids the teleology of some films about painters, which obsess over the development of work from juvenilia to masterpiece: ...

What is the usefulness of shells, as in putting them up to one’s ear to detect the poem? Isn’t it infringeable that we carry our mating rituals into teleology? Isn’t it lately that our mates don’t ...

The question was particularly awkward for Hobsbawm, since he had long since shed Marxist teleology. If communism was not the ultimate end of history, what reason could there be for killing millions?