I just got hold of Dylan’s new record, Modern Times, thanks to … errr … my connections in the record industry. Three days early, the

Naked Punch is a journal of criticism, philosophy and art, run by a small group of young, and youngish, intellectuals. Unusually they manage to get

I always wanted to give a course on “transgression” — a key social science concept too often ignored in the mainstream discourse. Of course I

These are five things I love about my new life: the creative confusion of the streets and the cities — how people relate to each

OK, now I’m really going to blow my left-wing credentials. Sweden has a new government, it’s a conservative one. Friends around the world send emails

We’re renting an unfurnished apartment for this year and before we could move in we had to get beds, chairs and tables. We began by

Since I got to Taiwan I’ve wondered why my new NCTU colleagues are so much more interesting than almost all academics I knew in London

Here are two articles I just finished. Academic style — with footnotes and everything. The first one, “Empowerment among Nations,” is going into a volume

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The mid-term elections in the US are upon us. Btw, isn’t it about time Iraqis were given a right to vote in American elections? After

The results of the American mid-term election are now in. The House is in the hands of the Democrats, the Senate too, Rumsfeld is leaving,