In theory, a new play on words
'Theory' is not an obvious candidate for theatrical treatment, but playwright Steve Waters argues that the philosophical musings of Bachelard and Barthes are the stuff of everyday life. Accounts of...
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The career of a cancer
Perutz prizewinning essayist Collette Tourlamain introduces the fatal Pap. Meet Pap. He is a virus (human papillomavirus type 16 to give him his full name), a small circle of DNA with a protein coat...
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No refuge for racists within the academy
Geoffrey Sampson's views are irresponsible and discredited and unworthy of the defence of academic freedom or free speech, says Ian McDonald One year ago, race riots swept across Northwest England....
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Haven't I seen that pattern before...?
A New Kind of Science
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Pisces: expect bad news
Bad Astronomy
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Science adds up for big softies
Making Social Science Matter
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Sublime take on Mainwaring and fowl jokes
Dad's Army
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A bible for all classes
Sociology - Sociology
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Tasty left foot, but what about his cultural passport?
The Only Game - The Changing Face of Football
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A view from the terraces
Football Hooligans
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Building Castells in the city air
The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory
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Demoting the ruler of shaky kingdom
Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action - The Government of Risk
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a cultural theorist with psychoanalytical tendencies: "One of the most deplorable aspects of...
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Knitting a tale of the search for a truth
A Trial by Jury
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Capitalism with a dash of clarity
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism