There are two sides to the new pharmacological weapons. On one hand, there are sinister characters like Walter Basson, whose work for the South African apartheid regime used chemical and (...)

Today West and East face each other uneasily across a divide that many see as religious war. Lessons can be learned from the mistakes of British imperial arrogance in India 150 years ago, and its misplaced idealism.

Nobody notices what you choose to look like on the campus of Berkeley or in the city of San Francisco. The wildest excesses of appearance and behaviour pass unremarked, because they’ve been (...)