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...
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...
Debussy and Mallarme: Symbolism and Les Mardistes Les Mardistes was a group of intellectuals who met every...
Britten and Auden: Inventive Days, inebriated nights at 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn In 1936, Britten and Auden established a friendship and creative...
The Question of Beauty in Architecture Alain de Botton, writer, broadcaster and producer, ponders the question...