Taylor E Dark spent a year teaching at a Russian university where he found a student generation politically apathetic but entrepreneurially vigorous. They even miss classes to go on business trips

The assumption that modern youth is truculent and lacking in respect for "elders and betters" rarely survives a visit to a college or, in my most recent experience, a lyc?e. The wary modernisation of...

AC Grayling surveys the essential literature from Plato to Bernard Williams

Stephen Brook divides Britain's columnists into ten categories of opinion

Edward Pearce is getting worried about Tony Blair and has a few suggestions for him

Jeremy Clarke goes to the US to think about sex and liberal democracy on Venice Beach

The latest unanswerable accusation is that of "having an agenda" (the singularisation of Latin plurals is something which Simon Raven and I deplore, but who are we against tous pollous?). Since...

Mind and consciousness

New York university requires all applicants from high school to answer the following question: "Are there any significant experiences you've had, or accomplishments you have realised, that have...

Dissent Spring 1996 Colin Powell's decision not to run for the Republican nomination both surprised and disappointed me. It also prompted a search for a satisfactory explanation. I began with the...