And the new favourite for the Tory leadership in the UK understands why.
A generation reared on a diet of self-esteem is having its own children and hot-housing them. What will be the results?
An appreciation of a master of English prose, P.G. Wodehouse.
A former Washington Post journalist asks why her friends are so scared of children with disabilities.
A tormented country comes to terms with its past.
Nothing terrifies her more than idleness.
Barbarism with pyramids or the examined life?
... ten years after its author downed tools forever.
What superior values can modern Europe flaunt to deny Turkey a place in the EU?
Children who use computers frequently often perform worse academically.
A warning against taking your anthropolgy from animals.
Despite scepticism, some are moving to Israel.
What ever happened to the grandees who used to head American universities?
Loss of familiarity with the Bible is cultural impoverishment.
But Americans do and - this is not a joke - an academic has written a 430-page book explaining them.
Four decades after the Moynihan report, perhaps the penny has dropped.
The US, Germany and Japan share a problem: how to reconcile the democratic process with market efficiency.
Cohabitation is not to marriage what spring training is to baseball
New ways exist to obtain embryonic stem cells. Why don't we use them?
The concept of evil is being rehabilitated to explain the inexplicable.
Steve Jobs is a fine example of how to overcome failure.
There is an alternative to embryonic stem cells, says a researcher.
The number of wars in the world is the lowest in 15 years. Good luck? Hard work? Who knows?
Millions of parents are buying books for home schooling. It's a surprising selection.
Too many of those affected by Katrina were single-mother households.
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