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It's Her Factory 18 Jun 2013 | 05:52 pm
Apparently, at least the States, "family formation negatively affects women’s, but not men’s, academic careers... [f]or men, having children is a career advantage; for women, it is a career killer". I...
No And I Don't Give A Good Goddamn 17 Jun 2013 | 02:02 pm
Alasdair Gray has famously kept using "work as if you live in the early days of a better nation" as a kind of motto, a spur to trying for more than seems sensible or perhaps even possible. Perhaps tho...
Help For Heroes 9 May 2013 | 04:46 pm
From an LRB piece on the killing of Baha Mousa and the botched British Army investigations into it, a statement by a former detainee about his treatment after being arrested by British forces in Novem...
On Not Handling The Truth 16 Apr 2013 | 01:23 am
The Danish detective series The Killing is misnamed. In the first season, the death it opens with, of a young woman chased through a forest, is far from the last. By the end of the run of 20 hour-long...
On The Authority Of Science 11 Apr 2013 | 09:29 pm
Bernard Williams on a certain kind of postmodernist: Now it is a real question whether the intellectual authority of science is not tied up with its hopes of offering an absolute conception of the wo...
Is Your Hate Pure, Or, Out By The Gas Fires From The Refinery 24 Feb 2013 | 03:31 am
Lincoln is a film about the dirty business of doing the right thing, about the costs, both human and moral, of fighting injustice. Lincoln himself of course ends by bearing some small portion of those...
A Rage For Paper Money 8 Feb 2013 | 03:05 am
Philip Pettit, the chief cheerleader for republicanism in contemporary political philosophy, is at best ambivalent about democracy, at least when it is understood in the usual sense of the picking and...
Rocking Chairs For Cretins 24 Jan 2013 | 05:45 pm
The idea of advertising food under the name 'organic energising detox salad' disgusts me. The idea that food, a thing of pleasure, should be a way of removing poisons from your body, of atoning for yo...
A Confederacy Of Dunces 23 Jan 2013 | 10:00 pm
The idea that Rousseau can be shown to be some kind of totalitarian, abusing the rhetoric of freedom to require people to fit his narrow vision of what it is to be human, in virtue of the infamous 'fo...
A City Full of Asperger's People 23 Jan 2013 | 03:19 am
Craig Taylor's introduction to his series of interviews with people who have lived in London, clearly itself a labour of love, is such paean to the city that I, hardened Londoner, almost began to well...
