People of Paradox
Terryl L. Givens looks at the candidacy of Mitt Romney.
Privacy in Peril?
If you increasingly feel that information about your life is taking on a life of its own; collected, monitored, and transmitted by interests outside your control—you’re probably not paranoid. A recent story tells of a school in England, that’s experimenting with electronic tracking of its pupils.
On Sports and Women
Laura Pappano is a former education columnist for the Boston Globe and co-author of Playing With The Boys: Why Separate is not Equal in Sports. In the op-ed below she brings her love of football to play with her love of competition. If I hadn’t committed to baking a quiche (half ham, half broccoli and […]
Halloween: The Sugar-Coated Holiday
Andrew Smith helps us learn about Halloween.
A Few Questions for Laura Pappano
Pappano talks about Playing With The Boys.
Prophecies: Right Here, Right Now
John Brehm shares a poem on the blog.
Longtail Wars
Evan Schnittman explains how publishing is winning the Longtail War.
Faith In The Halls of Power: How I Got The Interviews
A podcast with D. Michael Lindsay.
Ned Sherrin Remembered
By Kirsty OUP-UK All of us here at OUP-UK were saddened to hear of Ned Sherrin’s death on October 1, from throat cancer, at the age of 76. He was familiar to virtually everyone in the country as the presenter of the Radio 4 programme Loose Ends, but during his many years in showbusiness he […]
A Curse on Mean-Spirited Intellectuals:
And Literary Scholars Above All
Philip Davis is fed up with seeing literature treated as fodder for convoluted academic analysis.
Convening Power
D. Michael Lindsay’s second podcast.
Stoic Warriors: A New Breed of Warrior Athlete
An excerpt from Stoic Warriors.
Michael Lindsay, Bud McFarlane and Richard Nixon
The story of what happened after Bud McFarlane woke up from his suicide attempt.
‘After a Journey’
Philip Davis blogs for Moreover.
Life on Air: BBC Radio 4’s Milestones
David Hendy talks about five milestone moments in the history of BBC Radio Four
The New Gay
D. Michael Lindsay looks at Evangelical Americans.