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The funeral procession of Love followed by poets is heading towards the temple of Diana...

It showed that between 9% and 13% of all shots produced a goal and the goal-to-shot ratio was in the range 8.2 to 10.6...

Foucault was long concerned with traditional philosophical questions which, in the final years of his life, he explored through classical texts...

Where the emphasis is upon acceleration and instantaneity, longer term thinking is itself a form of resistance...

Propelled by drug wars and battles between cartels for new territory since the 1980s, how can art or culture reflect such a terrifying threat?

The Titanic fascinates filmmakers because it has everything a dramatist could ever want: heroism, sacrifice, decency...

The extinction of a species is a ghastly thing...

On the face of it, the results of Sunday’s first-round French presidential election look like a carbon copy of those in 2017...

Unable to deter the Soviets, France and Britain finally raised a military relief force, too small and too late to impact the outcome...

One study found that 78% of June Black Lives Matter protesters in New York City were white...

Shakespeare’s Henry has Richard II’s understanding of symbolic power without being trapped in its mirrors...

Are the dolphins somehow a metaphor for our condition as humans, believing that we are free so long as we remain oblivious to the restrictions within which we operate?

As Mary’s stories play over infective beats, I map Mary to everyone on the street...

How can they stick themselves on the wall and not fall off?

It is indeed very interesting to see many dovecotes in houses and courtyards...

Suddenly, everyone was sharing TED talks...

Lacan himself paved the way for my articulation of his mistake...

Alas, it is not in my (current) course budget to arrange for my students to go whooshing about on the flying trapeze...

A friend testifies to the reality of one’s memories. A friend rescues the past from unreality...