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  1. A transparent revolution

    Why did the great scientific advances that transformed the world between the 13th and 17th centuries all occur in western Europe? Alan Macfarlane believes the answer is crystal clear. One of the most...

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  2. Keeping watch on the seats of power

    Modern anthropology, the study of power in all its forms, is focusing on how elites and institutions affect individual lives and how the alienated can be empowered. Anthropologists are more committed...

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  3. Seeds of real relief

    Modern anthropology, the study of power in all its forms, is focusing on how elites and institutions affect individual lives and how the alienated can be empowered. Anthropological research on famine...

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  4. A cancer among the body social

    Modern anthropology, the study of power in all its forms, is focusing on how elites and institutions affect individual lives and how the alienated can be empowered. Those poor and desperate enough to...

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  5. Do we need to address our stress?

    As the working week gets shorter, work-related stress appears to be on the rise. David Wainwright and Michael Calnan ask why. In February, an appeal court ruling overturned compensation payments of...

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  7. Lit critters need selling

    English is as relevant as any subject. The world just needs to be told, says Bob Eaglestone. Something is rotten in the state of English. The study of literature and language is flourishing. It has...

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  8. The real cost of free speech

    The UK legal system found that writer David Irving had manipulated and falsified historical documents, but it also nearly scuppered an attempt by historian Richard Evans to publish his account of...

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  11. 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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