From The Hindu, an interview, with Paul Theroux on his books, his writing and his life in Hawaii. A review of Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media by David Edwards and David Cromwell. A review of Biology of Freedom: Neural Plasticity, Experience, and the Unconscious by Francois Ansermet and Pierre Magistretti. A review of The Concepts of Consciousness: Integrating an Emerging Science. A review of Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View by Stephen Hicks. The introduction to Montaigne's Politics: Authority and Governance in the Essais by Biancamaria Fontana. An excerpt from Kantian Ethics by Allen Wood. Randhir Singh, author of Crisis of Socialism: Notes in Defence of a Commitment, on the future of socialism. The 1970s rarely inspire as much nostalgia as the swinging decade that preceded them, but the modern world owes more to those troubled times than we’d like to think. The oily truth: Has the final mystery of the Mediterranean diet been solved? Intrigued by its reputation for "naughtiness", Conrad Heine heads to Maputo, Mozambique's raffish capital. For centuries Europe was a prickly landscape of heavily armed nation states; now the continent has largely lost its enthusiasm for conflict — how did that happen? More on James J. Sheehan's Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? An excerpt from Law, Legitimacy and the Rationing of Health Care: A Contextual and Comparative Perspective by Keith Syrett. A review of Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood by Elizabeth Gregory.
