There is a troubling disconnect between the deterrent rationale and the mechanism that will be used to deny ...

Last month, the Upper Tribunal for Immigration and Asylum granted six displaced Palestinians entry into the UK to ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

I received an email from my boss at the health department where I work on social epidemiology. It was ...

Leon Festinger’s concept of cognitive dissonance was born in the 1950s out of research into what happens when there’s a doomsday cult and doomsday fails to arrive. A tiny minority of cultists have ...

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Being pretty is a major disaster for women,’ Diana Melly once told a friend, and beauty certainly had a hand in ...

The tricks of artificial cold were once regarded with suspicion and awe. Twilley describes the world’s first cold-storage ...

The compound word kolossourgia, ‘monumental composition’, is found only once in extant ancient Greek, in a ringing sentence composed by Strabo of Amaseia. He uses it to convey the scope and technique ...