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Richard Sennett’s Respect ‘draws on fields normally guarded by specialists: urbanism, psychology, literature, architecture, the history of ideas’.

Colin McGinn disagrees with Damasio’s version of the James-Lange theory of emotion.

But what happens when the results are bad? When students mark teachers down for not being entertaining enough?

Is gayness in the genes or in the will, and who thinks which, and why.

ALDaily on Difference Feminism, or anyway on Difference.

Sometimes a teacher can change lives.

Therapists and clinical psychologists believe things that evidence has shown to be false, and there is danger in that.

No more of those petty little conspiracy theories, now it’s time for the big stuff.

Maybe dwelling on one’s problems isn’t all that curative after all?

Irving Howe’s taste for the complication and open-endedness of literature played hell with his Marxist certainties.

Critics of GM are missing the point.

Dennett on the evolution of freedom.

And marred by bad arguments, Simon Wessely says of this book about science and the chemical weapons industry.

‘He tries much harder than he has before to show that he understands the importance of our inner life.’

And does not desire to be somplace else.

We all need to be able to detect bogus claims, Robert Park says.

Writing is always profane and promiscuous, Terry Eagleton says.

Scientific American reviews Antonio Damasio’s Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain.

The law lords in the UK decided teachers may refuse to teach students who have been expelled for violence then reinstated.

Violent students and low-level bad behavior drive teachers out of teaching.