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Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, whi...more

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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly co...more

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When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was...more

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After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

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In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed dise...more

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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

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It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.