The Ruling Caste hails the incorruptibility of the small band of British bureaucrats who ruled the Raj

Rich kids have little time for their elderly parents. The ingratitude!

John Grimond, our former foreign editor, revisits the corner of Zambia where he taught in 1965

It takes outrageous profit or provocation for someone to do down a relative with whom they share a lot of genes.

Modern Darwinism paints a more flattering portrait of humanity than traditionalists might suppose.

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Profits are a guide to the value that companies create for society.

Companies that merely compete and prosper make society better off

Hard to quantify, especially if you don't try

The home of unbridled capitalism has more red tape than you think

That secretive light, or hidden love, was just what the director had been watching for.

Ingmar Bergman, film and theatre director, died on July 30th, aged 89.

In short, democracy is a mess. But dictatorship is worse.

How the electorate is irrational by Lexington

if staying alive were truly all it was about, might we not have arrived at ways to do it without joy-

Less surprising than the importance of the way a partner smells is the way that partner looks and sounds.

'The men are picking up on something in their partner's behavior that tells them to do more mate-guarding.'

What makes us go so loony over love?

The best thing about the spread of the ethical-food movement is that it offers grounds for hope.

So what should the ethically minded consumer do?

If you think you can make the planet better by clever shopping, think again. You might make it worse.

When habitats contract, the creatures they contain get smaller

How to make France a cultural giant again?

Quality, of course, is in the eye of the beholder--as is the very meaning of culture.

France does have composers and conductors of international repute, but no equivalents of such 20th century giants as Debussy, Satie, Ravel and Milhaud.

The land of Proust, Monet, Piaf and Truffaut has lost its status as a cultural superpower. Can France regain its past glory?

'Agriculture was presumably just another response to demographic pressure.'

'Several archaeologists and anthropologists now argue that violence was much more pervasive in hunter-gatherer society than in more recent eras.'

'The era of the hunter-gatherer was not the social and environmental Eden that some suggest'

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