If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.