CELIA GREEN
21 February 2020

Vladimir Horowitz and the psychology of kingship

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Vladimir Horowitz (1903 - 1989) Pianist Vladimir Horowitz in a 1977 interview : When I’m on the stage I’m one person, when I’m out of t...
13 January 2020

The social contract

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In the views of exponents of how society came to be constituted as it is (or was at the time, or should be) we note fairly constantly a will...
22 November 2019

Colin Wilson’s The Outsider

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Colin Wilson’s book The Outsider , published in 1956, has been described as ‘the classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind...
20 October 2019

IQ and identical twins

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The following extract is from: Peter Saunders, Social Mobility Myths , Civitas 2010, pp.56-58. (The full publication is available for downlo...
19 September 2019

Ignoring the heritability of intelligence

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Extract from a 2013 article by Ed West on the Spectator ’s website: I’m starting to get the impression that the Guardian isn’t very keen o...
01 September 2019

Æthelflæd - Lady of the Mercians

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England in 878 AD Æthelflæd, the daughter of King Alfred, was a significant figure in early British history. From the time of her husband...
24 July 2019

The Abolition of Genius

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This is a new, hardback edition of Charles McCreery’s book, The Abolition of Genius . The book contains an analysis of the relationship be...
22 July 2019

Stephen Jay Gould and The Bell Curve

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If ability is at least partly inherited, then it is likely that social classes will arise. If social class is partly explained by genes, the...
30 June 2019

Financing special education

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From Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man : The difference between strict hereditarians and their opponents is not, as some caricature...
14 June 2019

John Stuart Mill — blank-slate collectivist?

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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The following extract* from John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography is cited in Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate . ...
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