Misrepresented? Hugo Chávez and the Western Media

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has been amply described by the Western Press in recent years, usually in terms of 'populism' or 'anti-Americanism'. In an interview with Dr Julia Buxton, lecturer in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, Robert Looby questions some of the media assumptions

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In Defence of a Liberal Education.

Would we accept the foundation, with tax-payers money, of political schools? For example, a neo-conservative school here, or a communist school there, where pupils would be instructed uncritcally in a political ideology? Dr. Stephen Law, author of The War for Children's Minds, argues that we

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Break, Blow, Burn - Camille Paglia discusses poetry

Camille Paglia, since the publication of her first book Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, has stood out as one of America's leading, and controversial, intellectuals. Her latest book, Break, Blow, Burn- Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Be