Ethics of Austerity 3: Cynicism, Sincerity and Fear
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I suppose, in a way, British men are like white people were in Nineties South Africa or young Germans after the Second World War. We are expected to go through a period of atonement for the sins of...
View ArticleLibya and the Temptations of Geo-Political Reason
While Libya quakes, an assorted commentariat tussles over the legacy of the new military humanism and its possible revival. That such statements are now tempered with a caution absent for Kosovo and...
View ArticleThe Meaning of David Willetts: The Future University Between State & Market
One of the principle battle-cries of the education movement has been that the coalition’s plans amount to a privatisation of the university system. This conclusion is arrived at by a focus on the...
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