Is there a gene for racism?
The questions of a biological basis for racist behaviour and for religion were key issues in a debate at Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study devoted to the legacy of Charles Darwin....
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Sacré bleu
Religion is linked to genocide and jihad and is at odds with the Enlightenment, says Michel Onfray, but he still engages with believers, he tells Julian Baggini In recent years, it has somehow become...
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The choice is there - but not for everyone
Labour's championing of market forces as a way to improve public services may have had an unexpected side-effect: the entrenchment of privilege at Oxbridge. Amanda Root explains In 1997, the hope was...
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Lost in the fault lines of Zionism
The Last Resistance
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Identities forged in the Dark Ages
Who Are You? Identification, Deception and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
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Are we killing with kindness or wise to be lending a helping hand?
Does Foreign Aid Really Work? - Making Aid Work
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Manifesto for a modern ancient
Can Oxford Be Improved?
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Resilient elephant stumbles through
India after Gandhi
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The father of the country’s long-enduring line
The Bourbons - The Capetians
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Pay talks face radical reform
Employers back consortia of universities taking on responsibility for salaries and insist on single-table talks, reports Melanie Newman The prospect of academics' salary levels being set according to...
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O come all ye faithless - join the Christians
Student wine societies should be open to teetotallers and choral societies must welcome non-singers, an independent adjudicator has ruled, writes Melanie Newman. Ruling on a dispute between the...
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'The higher the risk of failure, the more exciting the potential result'
outhampton's new head of electronics and computer science has an adventurous streak in and out of work When fire devastated Southampton University's School of Electronics and Computer Science in 2005...
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On the move...
The British Academy has elected the following fellows: Ash Amin (Durham University), geography; Mark Armstrong (UCL), economics; Derek Attridge (York University), English literature; Toby Barnard (...
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Jobs axed after NHS cuts funds
Healthcare faculties forced to make redundancies as health service raids funding. Scores of academics are being made redundant in healthcare departments across the university sector as National...
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Self-plagiarising lecturer exposes software failings
A lecturer has highlighted flaws in the electronic plagiarism detection software used by some 80 per cent of UK universities after testing his own work for copied material. Simeon Yates, director of...