The Origin of Our Species
And God said, let there be culture. And there was culture. Then came technology, art, writing and, eventually, books. Some books featured more convincingly detailed stories about how it all started....
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Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime: The Changing Views of Russians
Explanations for the durability - or not - of undemocratic regimes could scarcely be more timely, given the upheavals that cashiered strongmen in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, but not (so far) in Syria...
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The University and The People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest
A 19th-century farmers' movement has left its mark on US universities, finds Francisco Ramirez
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Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century
More than two centuries after the revolution of 1789, the identification of the French nation with its republican institutions and values represents one of the most powerful myths in modern history;...
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Virtual Water: Tackling the Threat to our Planet's Most Precious Resource
Tony Allan is acknowledged as a world authority in the political economy of water policy and its reform. A pioneer in the development of key concepts in the understanding and communication of water...
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Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History
Sarah Toulalan praises an exploration of how pre-19th-century societies acted on their urges
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Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work
Isn't it time we started taking culture seriously in the design of technological innovations? Here, cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo throws down the gauntlet in a manifesto for true...
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The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence
Writing Irish history, for any readership and at any level, presents a challenge of complexity and bias of a very special kind. All historical sources present the difficulties of partiality, limited...
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Derrida had a word for it
An irritating cliche inspired David Bellos to examine the artful skills of the translator. Matthew Reisz reports
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Diary
LeedsThe Sadler GiftA century ago this year, Sir Michael Sadler (1861-1943) became vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds. He played a crucial role in developing the cultural life of the city and...
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The Pick - Tartuffe
TartuffeRoger McGough after MolièreEnglish Touring Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, and then touring nationallyWhen the theatre director Gemma Bodinetz asked poet Roger McGough to create a new version...
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The root of our problems
Our Deputy Head of Sociology, Professor L.G. Angst, has reacted angrily to Hefce costings that show that subjects such as sociology will, under the new tuition-fees regime, help to subsidise more...
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Research Intelligence - Turn on, tune in and make waves
Academics with a hankering to shine on radio now have their opportunity. Paul Jump reports
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Ten years after 9/11, terror studies run on ideals and ready cash
Interdisciplinary alliances, job-seekers and patriots fuel growth in US scholarship, reports Jon Marcus
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Off Piste - The Anarchic view from the hutch
When an anthropologist and her partner were arrested on the eve of the royal wedding for planning an anti-monarchy mock execution, the incident ended up on YouTube - and the footage revealed concern...