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‘Political loyalties and antipathies were always central to his reception.’

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

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

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

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

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

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

And do Rangers and Celtics games defuse tensions or stoke them?

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

Biology as a scientific discipline, what it means to be a species, more.

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

Millions of women and girls have returned to work and school since fall of Taliban.

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

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

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

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

Tendency to assume loudest religious groups represent everyone in their communities.

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

Famous obscure Marxist talks about blogs and Iraq war.

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