Society & Culture Archives

RIP Hitch

Anthony Burns ruminates on Hitch’s persistent preoccupations, and wonders aloud about that supposed move from left to right “For a

Natasha Byrne investigates the role of a very modern medium in the proliferation of a very modern condition It’s enough

Marianne Baker Ph.D A friend recently handed me a leaflet she’d picked up over in Tower Hamlets, which is a

Brian Earp and Robert Darby Ph.D According to Brian Morris in a recent issue of The Skeptic, “Science supports

Brian Morris Ph.D Skeptics are generally considered to be intelligent individuals who base their views on hard science, not the

A series of articles in The Skeptic examined the relatively common practice of infant male circumcision. Is surgical removal

Tessa Kendall looks at primatologist Frans de Waal’s work to muse upon the origin of our better natures Is