History Works Itself Out By An Inevitable

Imagine Someone Holding Forth On Biology Whose Only Knowledge Of The Subject Is 'the Book Of British Birds,' And You Have A Rough Idea Of What It Feels Like To Read Richard Dawkins On Theology.

What's Wrong With A Bit Of Nostalgia Between Friends? I Think Nostalgia Sometimes Gets Too Much Of A Bad Press.

I Do Not Know Whether To Be Delighted Or Outraged By The Fact That Literary Theory: An Introduction Was The Subject Of A Study By A Well Known U.s. Business School, Which Was Intrigued To Discover How An Academic Text Could Become A Best-seller.

The Political Currents That Topped The Global Agenda In The Late 20th Century - Revolutionary Nationalism, Feminism And Ethnic Struggle - Place Culture At Their Heart.

If There Are Indeed Any Iron Laws Of History, One Of Them Is Surely That In Any Major Crisis Of The Capitalist System, A Sector Of The Liberal Middle Class Will Shift To The Left, And Then Shift Smartly Back Again Once The Crisis Has Blown Over.