Should we take our leaders as seriously as they take themselves? Political leaders invest time and energy in cultivating their public...
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
Stealing the silver: How we take from the dispossessed, the poor and our own children There are numerous cases where well-meaning people find themselves defending...
To Blame or Not to Blame? The Medical Profession and Blame Culture Traditionally, medicine has been taught by imitation, apprenticeship and humiliation...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
Liquidity: Finance in motion or evaporation? House prices stuck? Not enough liquidity. Inflation rising? Too much...
Broadside Ballads of 17th Century England Lucie Skeaping, Broadcaster, Performer and Director of The City Waites...
Stravinsky, Britten and the Lure of the Classical Past Professor Cross examines the themes of metamorphosis and other classical...