Covenants without Swords; Swords without Covenants Hobbes declared that 'covenants, without the sword, are but words'...
Just War: Ancient influence on Islam and on the Spanish Conquistadors The study of justice in war is ancient in India...
Do we need a martian invasion in order to avoid attacking each other? Is human co-operation possible without external threats? What are the...
Free Speech and the Study of History A growing number of countries have so-called memory laws, ranging...
More than a feeling: How emotion works in the brain Following on from the public lecture on 21 February 2007...
Why do we hate? Why do we help? Asylum seekers and ambivalence in contemporary Britain Psychoanalytic theory illuminates the polarised nature of the asylum debate...
Should We Permit Voluntary Assisted Dying? The English courts have wrestled with challenges to the restrictions...
The Question of Beauty in Architecture Alain de Botton, writer, broadcaster and producer, ponders the question...