Preferential treatment
Social Choice Reexamined, Vol. 2
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Slaughter of bulls, bears, sacred cows
Wall Street
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It's a wonderful LIFFE
LIFFE
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Pennies before heaven
Can We Afford to Grow Older?
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Industry's quick, quick, slow
Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline'
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the work of an economist familiar with a trinity of continents: "Starvation...
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Sheep, goats, lions, newshounds
There's good news and bad news for media studies. David Walker reports. Media studies has always been able to play an ace against critics. Whatever they might say about its intellectual quality and...
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The government's commission on human cloning
(Photograph) - The government's commission on human cloning has to set the benefits cloning would bring to infertile couples against the fact that for every healthy baby there would be hundreds of...
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Yes, it's OK to clone
Bioethicist John Harris has a question for those wrestling with the morality of human cloning - why not? Harriet Swain reports. Many people will be extremely happy there is only one John Harris....
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Seed plants an idea
Within a week of physicist Richard Seed publicising his plans to clone humans for infertile couples, President Bill Clinton, the US Congress and French President Jacques Chirac were calling for a ban...
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A colonial spectre amid the groves
The profusion of white academics in development studies who cannot speak the languages of the societies they research is nothing but institutionalised racism, argues Suranjit K. Saha. This is a plea...
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Parables and the pursuit of everyday meaning
Bestselling academic Umberto Eco tells Domenico Pacitti why he thinks contemporary philosophy lacks common sense, and what Kant would have made of a platypus. The Italian philosopher and novelist...
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Adam Gearey
Adam Gearey explains how postmodernism has enabled him to marry law and literature in his doctoral research at the University of Kent. When I came to London to begin my PhD at Birkbeck College, I...
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Fed up with the Feds
Why has the US public lost faith in government? If anyone should know it is political scientist and friend of premiers, Joseph Nye. He talks to Huw Richards. Bob Dole did not get to be president in...
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Justice with a differance
In the second of our series in which leading academics and their postgraduates describe how theoretical methods derived from French philosophy have transformed their subject, Costas Douzinas revels...