Andrea Miglionico (Queen Mary): The Role of Ethics in the Anglo-Saxon Financial System. Gerald J. Postema (UNC): Law's System: The Necessity of System in Common Law. Ruthann Robson (CUNY): Beyond Sumptuary: Constitutionalism, Clothes, and Bodies in Anglo-American Law, 1215-1789. Duncan Bell (Cambridge): Before the Democratic Peace: Racial Utopianism, Empire and the Abolition of War. Thomas Crofts (Sydney): Regulating the Male Sex Industry. Timothy Jones on colonialism, homophobia and the legality of gay sex in the Commonwealth. The Association of Commonwealth Universities, the oldest university network, turns 100, launches campaign. Keith Windschuttle on the Anglosphere and its fifth column. Andrew Evan reviews Inventing Liberty: How English Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World by Daniel Hannan (and an excerpt on “the Anglosphere miracle”). Charles Moore on a reveille call to the slumbering Anglosphere. Russell Smith on how modern Anglo-Saxons just can’t get enough of their ancient filth. Kevin Hartnett on the American front lawn was really a British invention. Everyone loves a good stereotype: Liz Sawyer reviews Across the Pond: An Englishman’s View of America by Terry Eagleton. James Huffman on the world according to Kipling: At a time when Americans are becoming increasingly dependent, here is a reminder of what liberty and independence really are. Boxing Day in America: A guide for visitors from the U.K., Australia, and Canada. Emanuel Stoakes on colonial New Zealand. Why do we persist in thinking that standard English is right, when it is spoken by only 15% of the British population? Linguistics-loving Harry Ritchie blames Noam Chomsky.
