First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an epistolary novel: "You better not never tell nobody but God." * Entries, including postal...
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Output: still not really convinced
Views into the Chinese Room
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Proto-nerd meets pinball and Placido in popularisation bid
The Making of a Philosopher
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Gloves are like multiple personality
Historical Ontology
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Trying to put a value on virtue
Moral Dilemmas and Other Topics in Moral Philosophy - Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy
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Making a wrong into a right is the correct response
Ministries of Deception
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Laurie Taylor Column
" The renaming of courses for marketing reasons, especially when the names do not reflect the content of the course, is not helpful " - Jill Johnson of the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Alan Ryan
As affirmative action goes back to the US Supreme Court, the widespread belief is that diversity is a good thing. But is it? It's 25 years since the US Supreme Court decided - by the narrowest five-...
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Leader: Regulator will have little impact on real access
After weeks of hysteria over supposed social engineering, the brief for the Office for Fair Access begs the question: what was all the fuss about? The answer, of course, is that this week's proposals...
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King Edward II’s Death – Red-Hot Poker or Red Herring?
The grisly tale of Edward II’s murder may have been nothing more than a medieval con job, argues Ian Mortimer
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The last line of defence
John Lee Malvo could be executed if found guilty in the Washington sniper case. A local academic and his students are working to keep the teenager off death row. Walter Ellis reports Justice must not...
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Bellicose, intimidating? Moi?
There are no excuses for bullying, but there are reasons why it occurs. Valerie Atkinson considers some approaches to the problem Ask yourself what makes a bully. Unshackled power? Structural...
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Life's lethal quality control
A US businessman's claims to have found the unseen architect of evolution fell on deaf ears. But after a string of coincidences, some scientists are starting to listen. Geoff Watts reports One day in...
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Not even war excuses this 'dark and bloody' affair
At My Lai, US troops slaughtered 400 Vietnamese civilians. Will American military justice be able to prevent similar events from occurring in Iraq? asks Kendrick Oliver On the morning of March 16...
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Free trade is not a problem - but poverty is
Mike Moore, former director-general of the World Trade Organisation, sat down with LSE economist David Held to discuss the market's role in helping poor countries, the shameful protectionism of rich...