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reviews
Review: ‘The Least Worst Place’, by Karen Greenberg
Times Higher Education,
17 September 2009
So how did Guantanamo become “the world’s most notorious prison”? Principally as a result of a Washington-created public-relations own goal.
Book of the week: Our Nation Unhinged
Times Higher Education,
28 May 2009
Why did they do it? Frank Furedi on the erosion of civil rights in the post-9/11 US.
Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen
Times Higher Education,
12 February 2009
Book review: Peter Meyers' search for the answer to the question of when the war against terrorism began represents a noble attempt to engage with the confusing state of contemporary international relations.
The rise and rise of the New Malthusianism
spiked,
30 May 2008
Fatal Misconception is a thorough study of the history of the population-control lobby – but it fatally underestimates how influential the new green-leaning Malthusianism has become.
When all that’s Left is despair
Times Higher Education Supplement,
15 June 2007
There is hope in John Berger's study of modern disillusion, Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance.
Politics without sovereignty is not politics at all
spiked,
30 April 2007
He may be a 'professional exile', but a new book reminds Frank Furedi that the ideal of national sovereignty is worth defending today [review]
Respect: the formation of character in an age of inequality
New Statesman,
10 February 2003
by Richard Sennett, published Allen Lane, The Penguin Press
The Politics of the Forked Tongue: authoritarian liberalism [review]
New Statesman,
14 October 2002
by Aidan Rankin, New European Publications
In the Wake of the Plague: the Black Death and the World it Made [review]
New Statesman,
21 May 2001
by Norman Cantor, Simon & Schuster
The Problem of Race in the 21st Century [review]
New Statesman,
23 April 2001
by Thomas C. Holt, Harvard University Press
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