“... work done by social movements, and by those involved in scholarship, social policy and law? We may reasonably ask if it is only the putatively ‘extremist’ forms of gender ideology that are to be opposed. If so, is there a proposed criterion by which ‘extremist’ gender ideology can be distinguished from the non-extremist kind? Since the federal ...”

“... of minimum dwelling and socialist typification. Today ‘from the Bauhaus to our house’ may not be a bad path. It may be a necessary ...”

“... from the beginning or end of the play. Rather than a collection of complete dramas, the papyrus may contain a selection of greatest hits.Both passages are unmistakably by Euripides. They share his love of aphorisms, his obsession with the overreach of the powerful and the dangers of cleverness. In one passage, Polyidus rebuffs Minos’ demands: ‘So ...”

“... Historyes of Troye that he was born in the Kentish Weald (he gives this as the reason his English may come across as particularly rude and simple, but he must also have spoken French, and probably Dutch and German too). He was apprenticed into the Mercers’ Company of London in 1438, and by 1450 he was in Bruges, dealing in pewter, cloth and wool. He settled ...”

“... by the certain knowledge that if they fight both will lose? According to his mood, the Almighty may be greatly amused that his most ‘intelligent’ creation is at risk of using his brains to destroy himself; or He may react like Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande: ‘Si j’étais Dieu, j’aurais pitié du coeur des ...”

“... a great step forward for humanity. This essay was first published soon after the ‘events’ of May 1968 and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and it is perhaps a sign of those times that special attention is given to the ‘Jacobinical determination to wipe out the aristocracy of the mind’. This certainly existed in 1793-4, but the Revolution was a lot ...”

“... powder dry and prepare for a prolonged siege. Although monetarist economists and cost accountants may feel reasonably safe, Norman Tebbit has recorded his dim view of effete scholars who study tribal customs on the Upper Volta, while Sir Keith Joseph’s hostility towards the social sciences has involved the once-mighty Social Science Research Council in ...”

“... on both sides. Moreover, the assumption that people have a general model of the world, while it may be true, is hardly the kind of simplifying assumption that one expects from a scientific theory. If by ‘a mental model of the world’ one means the whole of an individual’s personal knowledge, then that would seem to be the thing to be explained, not the ...”

“... Shaw had observed only a harmless drudge, Mr Laurence sees ‘an exacting science’, a work that may be ‘treated artfully’, and the culmination (like an elevation to the peerage) of a lifetime’s achievement. It was nevertheless Shaw’s blindness to the beauties of bibliography that opened the way for Mr Laurence’s magnum opus. Shaw’s dislike of ...”

“... impudence, Conrad refuses to disfigure his text with a single footnote, even if some readers may feel that he wears his learning too lightly. Unlike some avant-garde works of art, this book erases all traces of the labour which produced it. What is worrying, however, is less the absence of footnotes than of original thought. Conrad’s general ideas ...”

“... by European standards, Rahnema is reluctant to use it. As a result, readers of the English life may be baffled to know quite why Ali Shari‘ati inspired such affection. Nor will they know what it was like to have Savak living in your pocket year in year out. Let me quote a short passage to give the book’s flavour: When the Doctor came back from his ...”

“... that it was ‘improper’ to ‘urge and rely on Testimonys for matters whose Truth or Falshood may be proved by manifest Reason or easy Experiment’. As Steven Shapin observes in his subtle and learned book, we should get a very misleading impression of the scientific practice of 17th-century England if we were to take this individualistic rhetoric ...”

“... topographical pattern of the sort familiar from the novels of Peter Ackroyd or Iain Sinclair. She may be a husbandless housewife living in a rundown seaside resort, but she is no ordinary housewife from a seaside town. When Miller mentions his computer password, she immediately announces what hers would be if she had such a thing: ‘ “Ikkoku”, which is ...”

“... Expeditionary forces and the French Armies from the very first days of the First World War up to May 1917. In 1915 when the failure of ‘his’ Dardanelles expedition had lost him his Cabinet seat, Churchill had gone back to soldiering. He had been offered the command of a brigade on the now entrenched Western Front, and had tried unsuccessfully to get this ...”

“... such staples of scholarly debate as the differences between the earlier and the later Plato. What may bother Stone’s readers is not this uninterest in the scholarly staples so much as a curious unevenness of tone between the earlier and the later chapters of his account. In his introduction, Stone takes Socrates seriously, even if it is in no friendly ...”