Category: Social Policy

25 July, 2011

Gabriel Roberts

Impact Assessment

A collection of academics seek in The Public Value of the Humanities to demonstrate the significance of their research.


13 June, 2011

Gavin Jacobson

Spirit of Resistance

Stéphane Hessel's Time for Outrage! urges that the state of the world requires a return to simple moral indignation.


Special Issue: Culture 2011

30 May, 2011

Zoë May Sullivan

Chocolate, Snuggles, and Straight Hair

Laurie Penny's Meat Market urges women to transcend liberal feminism and refuse patriarchal expectations.


Tom May

All Work and No Pay

Ivor Southwood's Non-Stop Inertia analyses the degrading and increasingly widespread phenomenon of precarious work.


7 February, 2011

William Kolkey and Alexander Barker

An Interview with Richard Watson

New technologies' influence on our minds


17 January, 2011

Naomi Pendle

Cattle Camps or the Classroom

Naomi Pendle explains the value of education in South Sudan, where inter-tribal raiding has been on the rise.


1 June, 2009

Mark Baker

The Spectre of the Hooligan

Anastassia Tsoukala's Football Hooliganism in Europe: Security and Civil Liberties in the Balance


Therese Feiler

Mr. Chitty and the Moor

Tristam Hunt's The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels


27 April, 2009

Taylor St. John

All Politics Is Local

The IMF in Argentina and beyond


16 March, 2009

Daniel Hemel

Strange Bedfellows of Philanthropy

Peter Singer, Bear Stearns and charitable giving