Bernard Porter | History Today | 27 September 2012 It looked big on the map. All those countries coloured red. But it was never administered or even loosely organised centrally. Run by a small cadre of civil servants: 4,000 at its Victorian peak. More about trade than territory Comments Kenan Malik | Pandaemonium | 26 September 2012 Did we learn nothing? Three myths about the Rushdie affair "have shaped responses to every similar conflict since. Every one is being reproduced in the current debate about The Innocence of Muslims" Comments John Quiggin | Aeon | 27 September 2012 Keynes argued 80 years ago that mankind could solve the general problem of scarcity, do away with the need to work in order to live. So why are we working harder than ever? Short answers: Globalisation, neo-liberalism, human nature Comments Scott Carney | Details | 26 September 2012 India syndrome is the new Stendhal syndrome. Westerners go East looking for wisdom, get overwhelmed, go crazy. "People come to us with acute psychotic symptoms. But you put them on the plane and they are completely all right" Comments Howard Gardner | NYT | 23 September 2012 "Human beings and citizens in complex, modern democratic societies regularly confront situations in which traditional morality provides little if any guidance." Where should we turn for advice on how to act? Gardner has an idea Comments Carl Zimmer | Nova | 20 September 2012 "Today, scientists can scan the genomes of Neanderthals who died 50,000 years ago. And yet the debate still rages." Did humans evolve from Neanderthals, or were we both descendants of a common ancestor? Comments | 
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