Culture and Society

As a city cyclist, one of the banes of my existence is ridiculously large vehicles, particularly 4WDs. (SUVs in American parlance.) Many of their drivers seem utterly unaware of the poor visibility of these hulks, or indeed even of their real size – near had my shoulder taken off by …

An American photographer and a Japanese poet met in a New York City café.

Two books about the horrible things done to girls, most often by other girls. One is the application of the label “school slut”. Now I think about it, every school, college and similar collection of adolescents or young adults with which I have been involved had a school slut, or, …

A history, in words and pictures, of the People Who Love Macs.

Eternal life may be changing from a death-defying fantasy to something more mundane, as this new book reveals...

Julia Child died today in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 91. Serious foodies and those of us old enough to remember her first television appearances know that Julia revolutionized cooking in America. Her television career began in Boston in 1963, and for those of us who grew up …

ISP's are lazy about handling abuse, and in turn are creating a hostile environment for users. When will it stop?

An autopsy of a badly broken social system by a forensic psychologist, the creator of the documentary Six.

Where is the noblesse oblige among my Pro-Military Action compatriots? Why all the gloating?