When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity State security blankets fail to make us safe and do many of us harm, argues Irma van der Ploeg 31 May
The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements 31 May
Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature To fully appreciate great works of art one must be tuned into history, discovers Mark Berry 31 May
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, by Robert Macfarlane Peregrination gives way to contemplation in a beautifully wrought travelogue, finds Timothy Mowl 31 May
Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and its Consequences Sergio Sismondo on Big Pharma's use of its political muscle to avoid regulation in the US 24 May
Consumption and Its Consequences Hedonism and selfish materialism are noticeably absent from the shopping list, says Eric J. Arnould 24 May
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire Egalitarianism is hard to find if you pass over anthropology for archaeology, argues Chris Knight 24 May
The Shape of Algebra in the Mirrors of Mathematics: A Visual, Computer-aided Exploration of Elementary Algebra and Beyond 24 May
Politics Without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century This provocative text may be just what isolated political theory needs, argues Matthew Flinde 17 May
The Baker Who Pretended to be King of Portugal Felipe Fernández-Armesto is stirred by the tale of a pastry chef who laid claim to an Iberian throne 17 May
The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present Women are born to demand their share - just ask the hunter-gatherers, argues Camilla Power 10 May
The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life Philip Robins on the Middle Eastern despots who held power for so long and lost it so rapidly 10 May
All in a Don's Day The chance to review a series of blogs on scholarly life was an offer Tom Palaima couldn't refuse 10 May
Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired Daily variations in human activity are driven by our built-in biological clocks, finds Greg Murray 3 May
