‘Political loyalties and antipathies were always central to his reception.’… Read the rest

Crucial question: who owned Shakespeare, the elite or the people?… Read the rest

Now widely asserted that British public culture was deeply ‘imperialized,’ but was it?… Read the rest

Deborah Lipstadt on the surrealism, embarrassment, cold, and memories at the death camp.… Read the rest

If honour trumps liberty and comfort, al-Jazeera may be less a force for democracy than for Arab nationalism.… Read the rest

Enjoy life. Don’t steal. Don’t hog the remote. Work out every day.… Read the rest

With those zany folks who believe in ‘the Rapture’.… Read the rest

And do Rangers and Celtics games defuse tensions or stoke them?… Read the rest

‘I could never make up my mind what I was interested in, and philosophy enabled you to be interested in anything.’… Read the rest

Biology as a scientific discipline, what it means to be a species, more.… Read the rest

Well, the ‘healing energy’ is elusive, but the placebo effect is solid.… Read the rest

Millions of women and girls have returned to work and school since fall of Taliban.… Read the rest

New research casts doubt on the claim that intelligence requires language.… Read the rest

A political and literary intellectual in an age when women weren’t expected to be either.… Read the rest

Indispensable for those at the fragrant crossroads of academe and journalism.… Read the rest

Shock-horror: she doesn’t care whether women go into science or not.… Read the rest

Tendency to assume loudest religious groups represent everyone in their communities.… Read the rest

‘History shows that the Muslims have in no era accepted their sanctities being defiled.’… Read the rest

Famous obscure Marxist talks about blogs and Iraq war.… Read the rest

‘Because “intelligent design” theories are based on supernatural explanations, they can have nothing to do with science.’… Read the rest