Does Simon Schama want to be Simon Cowell?

Or is it that both men really want to be Bernard-Henri Lévy?

Poets Laureate: A better understanding of the judging criteria

Ted Hughes

Andrew Motion

Carol Ann Duffy

Michael Hardt: The exception that proves the rule?

Michael Hardt

Cultural theorists in black shirts: Eagleton, Hall, Negri

Terry Eagleton

Stuart Hall

Antonio Negri

We all thought better of Quentin Skinner

Does Jacques Rancière share clothes with Zizek?

Jacques Rancière

Zizek at his best

And not so much...