Recent illness has prompted this new book from Snyder, author of 'Bloodlands' and 'The Road to Unfreedom'. Health is not recognised as a human right in the US, but, he argues, what's the use... read more
This collection includes his commentary on the events of September 11th, 2001, and also his brave and penetrating piece on Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land: AL was a philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester and conservationist, and a professor at the University of Wisconsin. He was the ... read more
The names have changed and the shamelessness causes the eyes to pop even further, but the threats to the freedoms Vidal loved and fought so hard to defend were already vivid in these excoria... read more
The controversial address to 3,500 psychoanalysts, at which he was booed off stage for asserting that the Academy needed to change their attitudes to gender.
In 1960, the author was the first black child to integrate into an all-white school in New Orleans. 60 years later, here is an impassioned call for racial equality.
Enacted first in 1689 to address abuses by the Crown, the Bill of Rights was recently invoked to check abuses by Government acting in the name of the Crown - the unlawful attempt to prorogue... read more