Here is an extract from the speech given by our Chancellor at last week's Social Science graduation ceremony in the David Lammy Concert Hall.Proud parents and graduandsI am delighted to have this...
The BBC must fulfil its potential to inform, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Fancy the matchless freedom of paragliding - but any time, any place, anywhere? Paul Chapman does, that's why he took to paramotoring
The Moon landings inspired a generation of scientists, but a cash-strapped UK is unlikely to explore the final frontier
I can see Lake Zurich and even catch a glimpse of some snow-covered Alpine summits from my office. It is in a well-maintained fin de siècle villa, and the decrepit buildings with which I had to...
Lord Ralf Dahrendorf, the sociologist, politician and former longstanding director of the London School of Economics, has died.He was born in Hamburg on 1 May 1929, the son of a Social Democrat...
Behaviourism's founder has suffered bad press, writes Janine Spencer
Cornelie Usborne delves into a complex and painful phenomenon of the Second World War
Wolfgang Pauli was admired as a blazingly confident theoretical physicist but also feared as a pitiless critic of every woolly or illogical idea. In 1932, when he was at his peak, few of his...
It should be against the law for anyone to write about religion without passing an exam on Emile Durkheim's 1912 text The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. This book stands unchallenged as the most...
Surveying the forthcoming crop of scholarly books, Karen Shook spots engaging reads suitable for the poolside lounger and weighter tomes for air-conditioned studies
Suroopa Mukherjee finds questions of gender and research in India are addressed, but not answered
The recurrence of war throughout human history is a pattern whose explanation has eluded philosophers, politicians, activists and diplomat practitioners. During the classical European system of...
The father of a friend of mine once characterised the US-American approach to travel in the following manner: "Do Europe in three days: Pisa, Florence and the Bingen Mauseturm." Be that as it may:...