Understanding Society

An issue which is of concern to anyone who receives treatment in a hospital is the topic of patient safety. How likely is it that there ...

A recent post comments on the value of biography as a source of insight into history and thought. Currently I am reading Andrew Hodges'...

I have always found biographies a particularly interesting source of learning and stimulation. A recent example is a biography and celeb...

Andrew Hopkins is a much-published expert on industrial safety who has an important set of insights into the causes of industrial accide...

Scientific fields are shaped by many apparently contingent and capricious facts. This is one of the key insights of science and technolo...

David Sanger's very interesting recent book, The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age , is a timely read this mo...

I've argued for the idea that social phenomena are generated by the actions, thoughts, and mental frameworks of myriad actors ( lin...

Stephen Greenblatt is a literary critic and historian whose insights into philosophy and the contemporary world are genuinely and consisten...

The idea of generativity in the realm of the social world expresses the notion that social phenomena are generated by the actions and t...

According to David Halberstam in his outstanding history of the war in Vietnam, The Best and the Brightest , a prime cause of disastrous...