We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. Sir, Janan Ganesh gets two things wrong in his column “We are all sophists now — or should be” (August 21).

If you’ve ever attended a high-energy seminar where a speaker yells, “unleash your greatness!” while pacing in an expensive suit reflective of poor fashion sense, congratulations – you’ve witnessed ...

The first major thinker to move to Athens from abroad was Anaxagoras. Arriving in 464 BC, he became a friend of Pericles and outraged religious opinion by claiming (correctly) that the moon was lit by ...

THERE exists a certain class of mind, allied perhaps to the ancient Greek Sophist variety, to which ignorance of a subject offers no sufficient obstacle to the composition of a treatise upon it. It ...