His four lectures under the banner "Mistaken Identities ... and will be broadcast on Radio 4 in October and November. Kwame Anthony Appiah says: “We live in a world where the language of ...

Journalist, Sonia Sodha reflects on the first of Kwame Anthony Appiah's Reith Lectures. Ask anyone what it means to be religious and you’re likely to get some sort of variation on “believing ...

Appiah starts his lecture with the story of a five-year-old African boy from Ghana, who in 1707 travelled thousands of miles across continents to join the household of a European duke at the centr ...

This is similar to the arguments he made about religion, nationalism and race in his earlier lectures: none of these provide the essence of a fixed identity. Kwame Anthony Appiah argues that ...

Advice on life’s trickiest situations and moral dilemmas from the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah. SUBSCRIBER-ONLY NEWSLETTER Advice on life’s trickiest situations and moral dilemmas from the ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on divulging a family secret. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have been living with a secret for close to 55 years. My first cousin, whom I am very close with ...

The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the ... 2015), Stephen Hawking (Black Holes, 2016), Kwame Anthony Appiah (Mistaken Identities, 2016) and Hilary Mantel (Resurrection: The Art and ...

By Kwame Anthony Appiah My husband of 52 years was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 10 years ago. Currently I am a full-time caregiver. I hope to place my husband in a memory-care facility ...