Marek Kohn
Articles by Marek Kohn
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Society
Who can you trust?
- 26 June 2008
Politicians frequently agonise over whether voters find them trustworthy. But the more important question for a society may be whether its citizens believe others will treat them fairly
UK Politics
How Britain can help Poles
- 05 June 2008
If Britain helps Poles see themselves as one group among many, with no pretensions to special status as victims or embodiments of moral virtue, that will do more for them than all the money they save or send home
Global Issues
The Arctic killers
- 09 August 2007
The scramble for the Arctic's oil and gas has begun. Marek Kohn reports exclusively from Svalbard on how, in this most sensitive of environments, the plunderers count on climate change for help
Ideas
The ideas corner: Neanderthals
- 30 October 2006
Marek Kohn on how a view of our ancestors helps us to define an image of ourselves
Ideas
The ideas corner: Enemies of the people
- 28 August 2006
Marek Kohn wonders why, in most democracies, the word "populist" is an insult
Ideas
The ideas corner: Sex on the brain
- 07 August 2006
Marek Kohn on why it could make sense that males think differently from females
Ideas
Sense of superiority
- 03 July 2006
Broken Genius: the rise and fall of William Shockley, creator of the electronic age Joel N Shurkin Palgrave Macmillan, 298pp, £19.99 ISBN 1403988153
