Customer concerns
Treating students as customers damages the academic community, argues Stephen Burwood It has become commonplace for students to be described as "customers". This is, of course, the sort of...
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More than a research factory
True scholarship involves a range of intellectual activities, writes Stephen Logan What are universities for? One function might be to maintain a degree of historical impartiality about the cultural...
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Why I ..believe guns do not increase violence
Gun control advocates have praised the English model, where the toughest arms restrictions of any democracy are credited with producing a low level of violent crime. But the historical record...
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Chipping away at liberty
Freedom and its Betrayal - Liberty
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Inky lines that can be more than words
The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a novelist who worked at the Foreign Office: "The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't...
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Pair of Castro heroes or just Cuban heels?
Inside the Cuban Revolution
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Why we should spurn equality and meritocracy
Against Equality of Opportunity
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The atomic cloud that hangs over our 'peace'
The Unfinished Twentieth Century - Britain and the H-Bomb
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Losers locked in an endless game
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
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Swiss 'strippers' remove leaves
Harrap French Dictionary, Unabridged Edition Vol 1 English-French - Harrap French Dictionary, Unabridged Edition Vol 2 French-English
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Killed for calling a cat a king
Censorship
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Lovely pix, lotus imposture
Buddhism
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Friendly fire lights up the lab
The One Culture? A Conversation about Science
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Lexicon of the light fantastic
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance