Too thin to be fertile?
A chance chat at a conference on meat production led Rose Frisch to research the link between women's weight and fertility. Jon Marcus reports on her startling findings. There is a distinct irony to...
A chance chat at a conference on meat production led Rose Frisch to research the link between women's weight and fertility. Jon Marcus reports on her startling findings. There is a distinct irony to...
The fear that British culture is being 'swamped' has arisen from the absurdity of essentialism, says C. W. Watson. In debates about multiculturalism, assimilation and integration in contemporary...
Why is multiculturalism under attack? Experts in the field consider why ministers have turned away from heterogeneity and the absurdities that stoke racial fears. Why has new Labour dumped 'diversity...
The extremist views of some staff and students have made headlines recently. Harriet Swain asks how such opinions should be addressed on university campuses. This is supposed to be the age of apathy...
Text-based analysis has pushed literary history to the sidelines, but we will learn little new without also looking at the history of bestselling fiction, argues Clive Bloom. Literary history has...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a work by a well-travelled anthropologist: "I hate travelling and explorers." The winner receives a...
Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory - Race and Reunion
Crucible of War
The American Revolution
A Great Civil War
Comic Book Nation
Public Intellectuals
Free to Die for their Country - Order of the President
Language in Danger - The Power of Babel - Speak
The Three Roosevelts