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In a fractured world, we can mostly agree that medical progress is valuable, and that achieving it is a worthwhile social goal. But beyond that, there are different and conflicting visions of what exactly progress in medicine entails. The consensus that we need more of it – whatever it may be – means that the […]
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When we think about politics today, we tend to think about speeches, soundbites, social media posts, or rolling news. Books can seem almost incidental: slow, old-fashioned, and increasingly marginal. And yet political books continue to be written, published, reviewed, displayed, debated, and argued over in Britain. Why? One answer is obvious enough: some people still […]
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Those who watched the televised images of COP30 in November 2025 could not have missed the striking presence of Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian city of Belém. They were there to insist that their role in conserving the Amazon be recognised at the heart of global climate negotiations. As the traditional custodians of the region […]
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With these words Rudyard Kipling explained the Indian revolt against the British in 1857. Nearly a century after Kipling’s novel was published, Edward Said would draw attention to the necessary tendentiousness of Kipling’s depiction. Naturally the British would insist on an imperial understanding of the rebellion as a product of Indian madness (and how better […]
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In the early summer of 431 BCE, villages and farms in Attica were abandoned as people moved into Athens. They were fleeing the advance of one of the largest armies ever assembled in ancient Greece. At its head marched the Spartans, supported by a formidable array of allies. The Athenians crowded behind the city’s Long […]
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Last year, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” While the citation may sound almost trite in the abstract, it reflects a major intellectual achievement. Thanks in part to their groundbreaking work there now exists a broad […]
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Have you ever wondered how Greek and Roman doctors thought about patients who heard voices or saw scary things that did not really exist? What did they make of people who seemed “out of it”? Could they find any differences between such hallucinations and vivid dreams? What did they think happened during sleep? Did they […]
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What will become of those currently experiencing the wars we see in the media? Take the wars in Ukraine, Gaza/Israel and Sudan, for example. Will the children be permanently scarred into adulthood, and will the communities be too? My book Historical Trauma: Psychological Processes, Contexts, and Healing collects evidence from psychology and the social sciences […]
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