social

By Brian Clegg In the twenty-first century, being a pioneer may seem entirely alien. The closest we get to pioneering may be choosing different ingredients for dinner or watching that…

By Bill Nye There is no such thing as race. We are all the same race. We all come from a common ancestor. We are homo sapiens with different skin…

By Sam Harris Although we are only beginning to understand the human mind at the level of the brain, and we know nothing about how consciousness itself comes into being,…

by Diane Ofili ‘You’re pretty for a dark-skinned girl’. As the bastard child of racism, colorism [also known as ‘shadism’] is behind many social malignancies, from denied job opportunities to…

Don’t loiter. Don’t linger. Don’t greet. Just be Ginger. Let me give you the low down on how things are run in this town. Frank is harsh, Harry is balding,…

By Aviva Chomsky Illegality as we know it today came into existence after 1965. In the decades before 1965, the media rarely depicted immigration in negative terms. Nor did the…

By Stephen D. King I count myself as one of the last of the so-called baby boomer generation. We were the lucky ones. Over the years, we enjoyed extraordinary increases…

My darling I’m leaving you. Our bed is icy, and I need the sun. Love is blind, and conquers all, But why does it so often fall? We once danced…