Elaine Morgan’s The Descent of Woman sets out with persuasive verve the theory originated by Alister Hardy, that human anatomy and physiology, and the gap in the fossil record, are best explained by assuming that the race passed through an aquatic period. In his Foreword to her later and less popular book on the same… read more »
REVOLUTION is supported mainly by the working class, but so is reaction and – even more important – so is apathy. SIR ROBERT MARK, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, defined a good police force as one that employed fewer criminals than it caught; he noted that the Met did not then meet this criterion…. read more »
Revision of May 1989 IDEOLOGICAL COMMENTARY is devoted to the development and exposition of systematic ideology, a theory originated and largely developed by the late Harold Walsby. We do not claim final or exhaustive understanding of it; the formulation that looked like the ultimate last month needs alteration now, and the partial account given here… read more »
Obedience is all around us; has it been imposed upon people yearning for freedom, or volunteered by people who don’t value independence? Everybody interested in social affairs will have an opinion, and most of us are ready to give voice to our belief. Stanley Milgram took a different approach, setting up a series of experiments… read more »