Surprise, surprise, it’s not always good to talk.… Read the rest

Philip Foner helped himself to students’ work, and many of them fumed but kept quiet about it.… Read the rest

And interesting issues are raised – is objectivity possible? If not, why write history at all? Why not just pledge allegiance to something?… Read the rest

Does enlightenment summon its own enemies into being?… Read the rest

The US Supreme Court narrowly upholds University of Michigan’s use of race in admissions, rejects point system.… Read the rest

Michigan’s law school can continue to consider race; undergraduate programme is unconstitutional.… Read the rest

It’s become hip to regress into childhood.… Read the rest

‘…the outlandish claims that were frequently made for Potter made you wonder whether some of these people had ever read anything else.’… Read the rest

The Dini case, a conspicuous ‘debate’ in Tucson, a new ‘Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination’ in Ashcroft’s Justice Department.… Read the rest

Under God, one man one vote, Muslim child – language does shape our consciousness.… Read the rest

Race is a fiction, therefore everyone must learn to be completely obsessed by it. Eh?… Read the rest

Matt Ridley on the way genes and experience interact.… Read the rest

A mash note to Alan Sokal in the Guardian.… Read the rest

Whether the arts should be judged on aesthetic grounds, or on ethnic representation.… Read the rest

The reporter who investigated what happened at the Baghdad Museum says the waters are still being muddied.… Read the rest

Bristol University will continue to consider backgrounds as well as academic records.… Read the rest

Authoritarian cults that demand sensitivity or else, or hard-headed researchers who ask questions.… Read the rest

How quickly rebels can move to the other side.… Read the rest

Woolf’s early notebook reveals – surprise! – she had her flaws.… Read the rest

Virginia Woolf told jokes, including obscene ones, Doris Lessing points out.… Read the rest