Enduring myths of hagiography
The Witch in History
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Decoding the concrete jungle
Space is the Machine
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The good enough life
Visions of Suburbia
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It's life, Jim, but not as we know it
Deny All Knowledge - Cult Fiction
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The arch medievaliser
A. W. N. Pugin
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Speaking volumes: David Williams's The Rebecca Riots
On David Williams's The Rebecca Riots. In the summer of 1955, when I had just graduated and was contemplating what to do with my life, I met David Williams and read his The Rebecca Riots, which had...
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An ambition harpooned
Herman Melville
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A loosed tide
W. B. Yeats
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Greenblatt: Act 2, Scene 1
Stephen Greenblatt is an exponent of new historicism, a rather trendy theory that has divided academics. Now he has been asked by publisher Norton to help edit its Shakespeare. Jennifer Wallace talks...
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Aunt Deirdre says 'Economists, get out of the sandpit.' Now!
Deirdre McCloskey changed gender a few years ago. She was professor of economics at the University of Iowa at the time and known as Donald McCloskey. She argues that economics must reject the three...
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Flag of convenience
Labour and the Conservatives both claim to stand for national pride. Harriet Swain hears from a historian who is unconvinced A recent party political broadcast by the Conservative party featured a...
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Digging for victory
Donald Johanson, the flamboyant fossil-hunter who shot to fame after his discovery of a three million-year-old skeleton in 1974, tells Lucy Hodges about his plans to excavate in Eritrea Why does...
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The tanks that think
Simon Midgley takes the lid off the Fabian Society in the latest in our series on intelligence units The Fabian Society, which is affiliated to the Labour party, is the oldest socialist society in...
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Creche barriers
A lack of childcare can limit choice for staff and students. Katrina Wishart looks at whether things have improved sinceour last survey almost a decade ago The campaign to create a nursery for...
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Madness in the method
It is not scientific inquiry that produces anti-science feeling but distorted ideas of what it means to be 'scientific', argues Mary Midgley Particular myths that have come down to us from the...