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Englishness has long been a puzzle both to philosophers and to historians. As long ago as 1741, David Hume declared: "The English, of any people in the universe, have the least of a national character, unless this very singularity may pass...

Sergio Sismondo on Big Pharma's use of its political muscle to avoid regulation in the US

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is stirred by the tale of a pastry chef who laid claim to an Iberian throne

Let's be honest. It's hard to get excited about car parks. That probably accounts for the paucity of serious studies about them. To make matters worse, car parks - known in the US as parking lots - do not exactly enjoy a positive reputation...

This book sets out to retell the history of the intimate relationship between broadcasting and domesticity. Set against a backdrop of changing social relations from the 1930s to the present day, it looks at some of the ways in which radio...

This delightful, literally lightweight book takes you on a brief journey from Brindisi in the heel of Italy's boot to Rome; but what an engaging journey! Robert Kaster and his wife travelled the length of the Appian Way, the first great...

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This provocative text may be just what isolated political theory needs, argues Matthew Flinde

"Licence to kill" - this was the message given to the German people during the era of the Third Reich by the two most morally authoritative groups in society, the churches and the universities, Robert Ericksen claims in Complicity in...

Women are born to demand their share - just ask the hunter-gatherers, argues Camilla Power

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Philip Robins on the Middle Eastern despots who held power for so long and lost it so rapidly

The chance to review a series of blogs on scholarly life was an offer Tom Palaima couldn't refuse

How much is society prepared to invest in the quality of the education it offers and to make it easily accessible to its entire population? What can and should art and literature do for the societies in which they are produced? What is the...

Why can't we all just get along? According to moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the reason is that human nature is intrinsically "groupish" and judgemental. Haidt weaves together updated versions of experiments described in earlier articles...

How hard life is for immigrants, exploited and robbed of their weekly wages by Neapolitans. What happens in a degraded economic area of Southern Italy when newcomers arrive illegally? The ethnographic dimension of such discussion goes back...

This guidebook, which steers us confidently through some of the thickets of literary theory, is of the companionable and clever variety that we have become accustomed to expect from Terry Eagleton. It's the sort of book whose covers, if...

Daily variations in human activity are driven by our built-in biological clocks, finds Greg Murray

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Jean Duncombe ponders the interdependency of women's self-worth and romantic relationships