Left cold in hot air
The Twilight of The Intellectuals
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Scales of flesh sales
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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Freedom in a bowl of salad
Making Americans
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Perfect market model that could not stand reality
Inventing Money
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When race came before faith
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
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Social taboo to mobile art form
Written on the Body
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The debates about revolt
A Blackwell Companion to the American Revolution
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The players who set the stage for US tragedy
American Tragedy
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At the centre of Indian affairs
Jefferson and the Indians
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The virgin queen and his progeny
Mainly about Lindsay Anderson
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How the war was fought
Peace Now!
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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 pied noir witha red complexion: "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is...
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Higher channels
John Davies studies the broadcasting schedules (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week. Themes from episode four of the excellent The Day the World Took Off (Sunday 8.00) are echoed in other...
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An optical disillusion
Last week, David Hockney accepted his last honorary degree. He used the occasion to tell Elaine Williams why students should swap their video cameras for pencils and look at the world afresh. David...
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Any advance on Pounds 22.5 billion?
Paul Klemperer tells Karl Sabbagh how academics made the government a lot of cash by devising a telecoms auction. For me, economics has always seemed a bit like meteorology. When economists get it...