>> the title mostly goes to the marketing people at oxford university.ou spend four five years working on a book and the marketing people give you 24 hours to come up with something with fewer nouns in it. i wanted to call it something else. i had the idea to write a short book that oxford university press does call the inalienable rights series and they didn't have a volume on the constitution, making the constitution. i had written a volume before on racial equality and looking for 50,000 word books which are short books, i made the mistake in getting primary sources so i did a lot of secondary literature and found the more i got to the primary sources the more it occurred to me there are not just areas that -- not a small book on the founding but one book tells the whole story, there are lots of bad books on the philadelphia convention like the articles of confederation, the bill of rights but nobody is trying to tell the story between 2 covers between the articles of confederation to the philadelphia convention through ratification and the bill of ri

according to a recent study out of oxford university, when someone takes on a new romantic partner, that person loses one or two close friends. since when do you read social science? i go to the bathroom like everybody else. why would i lose friends just because i started dating someone? yeah, you didn't lose anyone when you met amy. yeah, well, no, the study refers to romantic partners. not the way i would categorize the two of us. you guys kiss and hold hands.

and astronomy at the university of pennsylvania and has been a visiting professor at mit and oxford university and i'm proud to say he was my chair at the department of astronomy at penn and former director of theoretical physics at the national science foundation. chino is author of three books of scientific history particularly on atomic physics and his second book was a finalist in the los angeles times a book fair and winner of the american institute of physics science writing award. bettina hoerlin is a form of philadelphia health commissioner and taught health care to the university of pennsylvania for 16 years and has been a visiting lecturer at oxford university. she is the daughter of her bin hornblende and chronicled her parents departure from nazi germany and her own fabulous book which i encourage you read. she grew up in atomic city lost almost and she and chino are a husband and wife team and always. has seven children and nine grandchildren and i'm proud to call them my friend. please join me in welcoming gino segre and bettina hoerlin. [applause]. >> i'm going to start off with

university of pennsylvania for 16 years and has been a visiting lecturer at haverford college and oxford university. she is the daughter of orlin and chronicled her parents meeting and departure from nazi germany in her own fabulous book which i recommend you read, staff of courage. my parents gary from nazi germany to america. she grew up in was almost and she and gino are husband-and-wife team and always. i have seven children and nine grandchildren, i'm proud to call them my friends so please join me in welcoming gino segre and bettina hoerlin. [applause] i'm going to start off with something that's a little unusual but i want to thank the two authors here. i believe about 15 years ago, maybe 20 years ago, gino on the death of another famous physicist, richard feynman said the greatest thing you could say about him is that you are so proud to be holding the same union card is somebody who also held it whose name is richard feynman and i feel very lucky to have been asked to interview the two of you about this book because enrico fermi is the physicists physicist. he may not be so well-known to t

i'm tom hart, i'm a scientist at oxford university.eninsula. the bottom one takes photos all year round every hour. the reason we're here is to monitor penguins on a vast level. if we have a constant presence in these colonies, we can look at how many chicks survive. it's like cctv. seeing what is going on in winter is something you would never get to see. the partnership with tourism, this access is really important. it's vital. we would never have the access without them. we are doing this because, partly, tourism is a potential threat and we want to monitor it and so we measure it. where we have looked, there seems to be very little impact of tourism. we have a close partnership and they drop us off where we want to go and in return we educate their tourists about conservation and hopefully inspire them to conserve penguins. this is the hole in the side of the ship that we go through before we go to shore. we have to wash out routes. —— boots. it is a pristine place. we can't take anything onto the antarctic mainland which shouldn't

martin: there have been a couple of studies done, most notably by a couple of researchers at oxford universitythey have looked at a number of countries, and most of the results have come back suggesting that up to half of the jobs could be susceptible to automation perhaps over the next 20 years. narrator: that is 60 million jobs in the united states alone. martin: that is a staggering number. and obviously, we have a massive social problem. you have tremendous stress on government in terms of trying to take care of all these people that no longer have an income. i think that you would see the potential for a massive economic downturn because you would run out of consumers. you no longer have people capable of buying the products and services that are being produced by the economy. narrator: a revolution on this scale wouldn't just transform an economy. it would have immense implications throughout society. martin: we could really have just what you might call inequality on steroids. the very wealthy people who own all of this technology are going to do extraordinarily well. you woulhave t pot

neil gorsuch, 49, a federal appeals judge in denver with sterling credentials -- harvard law, oxford university -- known as a fine writer and staunch conservative in the mold of justice scalia. but judge hardiman's gotten a boost from a key player -- president trump's sister, judge maryanne trump-barry, hardiman's colleague on the bench in philadelphia. mr. trump's supporters in the campaign, and he knew it. >> you have to vote for me anyway, you know why? supreme court judges. supreme court judges. >> reporter: whoever wins the prize from the president tonight with this appointment, the court's delicate balance won't change. president trump's pick replacing justice scalia to form the four-man conservative block squaring off against the four liberals, three of them women, with justice anthony kennedy, 80 years old, the crucial swing vote. >> you look at scalia, if you could do that, if you could duplicate that -- as far as i'm concerned, it would be absolutely perfect. >> reporter: the court's agenda in the coming years expected to include abortion rights cases, the battle to overturn roe v. wa

i'm a scientist at oxford university.las. the bottom one takes photos all year round every hour. —— breadth. if we have a constant presence in these colonies, we can look at how many chicks survive. it's like cctv. seeing what is going on in winter is something you will never get to see. the partnership with tourism, this access is really important. it's vital. we would never have the access without them. we are doing this because partly, tourism is something we want to monitor and so we measure it. where we have looked, there seems to be very little impact of tourism. we have a close partnership and they dropped us off where we want to go and in return we educate their tourist about conservation and hopefully inspire them to conserve penguins. this is the hole in the side of the ship that we go through before we go to shore. we have to watch out routes. it is a pristine place. we can't take anything onto the antarctic mainland which shouldn't be there. this is a zodiac. it is a fast rubber boat and we use this to get aro

a piece of abstract art made from a student‘s rejection letter from oxford university has gone viralided to turn the letter into a piece of art and a picture of it was posted on twitter. just so you know, claudia was offered a place at durham university where she‘s doing well. some of the london acts up for this years brit awards say it‘s a great thing that they‘re recognising the diversity in music much more than in previous years. grim artist, skepta from tottenham, who won a mercury music prize last year, joined michael kiwanuka from muswell hill and kano from east ham in welcoming the broader range of nominations. they‘re up against david bowie in the best male artist category. let‘s have a look at the travel situation now. we can see it‘s a good service on all lines apart from tfl rail which is partly suspended due to ongoing engineering work. the a! has reopened at upper holloway after being closed since october while the railway bridge was replaced. but bus lanes will remain closed for a few more months. just by the elephant & castle roundabout, st georges road is closed up to

neil gorsuch, 49, a federal appeals judge in denver with sterling credentials -- harvard law, oxford university -- known as a fine writer and staunch conservative in the mold of justice scalia. but judge hardiman's gotten a boost from a key player -- president trump's sister, judge maryanne trump-barry, hardiman's colleague on the bench in philadelphia. the court a critical issue for mr. trump's supporters in the campaign, and he knew it. >> you have to vote for me anyway, you know why? supreme court judges. supreme court judges. >> reporter: whoever wins the prize from the president tonight with this appointment, the court's delicate balance won't change. president trump's pick replacing justice scalia to form the four-man conservative block squaring off against the four liberals, three of them women, with justice anthony kennedy, 80 years old, the crucial swing vote. >> you look at scalia, if you could do that, if you could duplicate that -- as far as i'm concerned, it would be absolutely perfect. >> reporter: the court's agenda in the coming years expected to include abortion rights cases, t

. >> reporter: philadelphia native, stephen johnson graduate student at oxford university in england.u, president obama. >> reporter: in high school he wrote the president a letter thanking him for being an inspiration. the president's reply inspired him even more. >> even though the letter was short, and the number of words, probably are the most profound word ever addressed to me before. >> reporter: reeves has seen an uptick in praise for the president all. thank you for standing up for women. >> as more people write to say good-bye. off awe i will regard you as my president, you were the president who believed in me. >> reporter: later today she will select the final ten letters, president obama will read in office. >> what do you hope the president walks away with? >> i hope that he, and the country, walk away with all of these people continuing to feel engaged and like their government hears them they can help shape their government. i think that's what he leaves in our country. i hope he walks away feeling pretty good about that. >> of course, too late to rush off a letter to p

publisher to send a copy of every book that they publish to the major universities, including oxford university, the library. it without a fight thomas bodily come in his collection he was not a fan of place. he saw them as tricky but apparently they change their mind at some point because a copy of the first folio ended up there. once the first folio sold out, a second, third and fourth folio were also produced. they are much less valuae and they include plays that were attruted to shakespeare but not written by shakespeare. you can imagine the first folio sells pretty well, so the publisher says maybe we can find someone plays by this shakespeare guy. and they're not by shakespeare. sir john oldcastle is not by shakespeare. nonetheless, when a copy of a subsequent folder, second, third folder comes to the bodleian library they figure the first folio is superfluous.fluous s so to get rid of it at a library sale. for 24 pounds. wouldn't you have liked to have been at that step? so think of that as you walk out of the library and the friends of the library have their sail out there, you will nev

. >> he is only 32 and one of millennials with glossy academic credentials, a masters from oxford universityl, he academy where his storm proctor was mark sucker berg. since he has graduated from college, he has been working to develop businesses and some of the places that ultimately helped to elect donald trump, rural america, and he started village capital, which has backing from big names early capitalvide for businesses that can develop into something that provides jobs in these areas. to his thinking that he does not think there is a lack of skills, but rather a lack of opportunity, so with money he is trying to support startups that can provide opportunities for people. >> right, his idea, he has noticed that silicon valley can be very insular, and he pointed out of the $60 billion in venture funding, 90% went into states that backed hillary clinton, so he put most of his money and states that voted for , whichtrump, into indigo can be turned into natural dye for blue jeans. another company in kentucky that on either a six species into a gourmet fish you can eat. aiver: it seems like

his previous book was published in 2013 by oxford university press. 2014, it was named a finalist for the silver gavel award. a former staff writer for the washington post, he has written for the new york times, the new york review of books, the nation, the new republic, and the american prospect. he received his doctorate from duke university. before attending law school, epps also learned that urges his ma in english writing. [applause] dr. epps: thank you for that generous introduction, and i also thank everybody who came out at a time to think about presidential transitions that we may not want to think about. but here we are. i want to thank the sponsors of this event for inviting me. i want particularly thank sandra shea for my excellent tour of the new and library today -- truman library day -- today. i accepted this invitation with a good deal of humility. it wasn't that i wasn't really sure that i rank with the speakers that you see here, but i was excited to come to truman country and talk about the truman era for a number of reasons, the first being i was born during his ad

researchers at oxford university say its unlikely to have much impact.rac. both fuels went up by three pence a litre during the month. it now costs around £62.80 to fill up a typical family car with petrol. the increasing cost of crude oil and further falls in the value of the pound are believed to be behind the trend. a figure of a soldier from the first world war has been created entirely from scrap metal. it's nearly six metres tall and took a blacksmith three months to make the war—weary looking tommy. martin galbavy used items including spanners, brake discs and horse shoes to create the impressive work. it's a stunning, isn't it? when it you see it next to the building, you get a sense of the scale. being able to speak english is ‘key‘ to integrating into british life. that's according to mps who want immigrants to learn the language before coming to the country. they also want the government to consider giving regions more immigration powers. labour's chuka umunna chairs the all party parliamentary group on social integration. hejoins us from our

constitution was published in 2013 by oxford university press. finalist for the american bar association's award for his previous books. his book religious freedom on trial was also a finalist. he has written for the near times, the new york review of books, the nation, the new republic, and he received his master of law from duke university where he served as article director. before attending law school, he received his ma in english writing. he was editor of the harvard crimson. [applause] >> thank you. introduction.ous i also think everybody -- thank everybody who came out at a time to think about presidential transitions when we may not want to think about presidential transitions. here we are. i want to thank the sponsors of this event, the national archives and record administration, and the harry truman center for governmental affairs. sam for myy excellent tour of the truman library today and professor newman of the truman center for all they have done to make my visit comfortable and interesting. i accepted this invitation with a good d

most recently he's written the bible cause, history of the american bible society with oxford university press. john has published in the christian century and i christianity today along with the washington post and new york daily news and has done article in the journal of presbyterian history and 19th -- american 19th century history. tonight, dr. fea will be speaking on material from his 2011 book, was america founded as a christian nation, a historical introduction, which was one of the finalists for the george washington book prize. the book was recently re-released and revised edition and randall balmer has called it a remarkably useful guide for navigating the arguments about america's christian origins. at the conclusion of this talk he will do a question and answer session and i would ask you guys, there is a mic in the gallery. fu wanted to ask a question, you need to come to the mic. i will come to stage, repeat the question and then he will answer it. so you guys have to be a little bit patient. that said, it is my pleasure to bring dr. fea to you tonight. i would like to tha

professor alison young from hartford college, oxford university and jeremy brian, barrister at essexng, it looks like the government are in trouble. we weren't getting the indications from the justices that they were suddenly going to go the other way. i thought it might have been unanimous. it is interesting that we saw three very powerful dissenting voices today and so from a legal point of view, although we do have a big ruling in favour of miller, we also have a great debate between the justices about the true source of law. a wide constitutional debate to be had in places like hartford college, oxford, for many years to come no doubt. keir starmer was saying, what a waste of time and money in terms of the government bringing the appeal to the supreme court. i suppose at least it has clarified some things legally and constitutionally? absolutely, huge constitutionally? absolutely, huge constitutional importance and it is important to have the decision of the supreme court, having all 11 adding weight to the decision. it is important all the way through this process they have stre

an oxford university professor making the complaint saying hate speech was being used to foster supporte speech amber rudd gave in birmingham to the conservative party conference in which it was said the home office was examining whether to tighten the test companies take before recruiting from abroad. it had been floated in the media companies would have to draw up lists of nationalities to ensure they were reporting more british workers. amber rudd went on the today programme on radio 4 and said that was one of the options they were looking at. i don't think that proposal has gone very far since then. let's get more now on the news that the us director of national intelligence has rejected suggestions made by donald trump that official agencies leaked claims russia had compromising material on him. i'm joined now from birmingham by scott lucas. he's a professor of american studies at the university of birmingham. thank you forjoining us today. so much to talk about as a result of that news conference and the allegations surrounding the president—elect. first of all, these allegations,

publisher to send a copy of every book that they publish to the major universities, including oxford university by the way, simona thomas bother using its collection, was not a fan of plays. he saw them as trivia, but apparently they changed their mind at some point because it ended up there. once the first folio sold out a second, third and fourth folio were also produced, they are much less valuable and they include plays attributed to shakespeare, but not in byyou shakespeare.io you can imagine the first cells pretty well, so the publishers as maybe we can find some were placed by the shakespeare guide. and they are not by shakespeare. sir john all-caps-on new york shire tragedy or not a shakespeare. nonetheless, when a copy of his subsequent folio comes to the library, they figured the first folio is superfluous, so they get rid of it at a library sale for 24 pounds. when she would like to have been at that scale? think of that as he walked out of the library at the friends of the library have their sale card out there. you never know what you are going find there. they dispose of this copy

drawing and one of the wonderful things we have here in the collection is his notebook from oxford university and i think if you look influence it, you can see he spent a lot of time making little cartoons and doodling on his page. perhaps more of that than he was at taking notes. i think he and then his first wife who convinced him i think that he was perhaps better suited to a live lie -- life of an artist rather than a writer. came back, when they came back to this country trying then to make it as an artist and he did. the first children's book he published was to think they did it on mulberry street. 57. wasn't until 19 he did do illustrations for early authors early on. i think "the cat in the hat" really saw his publishing career take off. it was an incredibly popular book and it made people think about a different way of teaching, of how children learn. it was very different from a lot of the children's books that were popular at the time, such as the kind i might have read when i was a child. sort of the see spot run, that kind of very simplistic approach to children's literature. hi

oxford university, 46% of all jobs, deloitte 46% of all jobs , in europe.ew did a study of half predicted not only will there be automation be taking away jobs but it has the potential of creating a new amount of social unrest in our country. so all of a sudden everywhere you look, larry summers says one quarter of american men will not be employed at any particular time in the next generation. we now see driverless cars but think about driverless trucks. the largest job in 29 states, second or third largest job is in 15 more is driving a truck. driverless trucks are on the road right now at mining camps. trucks actually towed behind one truck driver, following behind on truck driver just drove all the way across europe from one end to the other. the private equity person who owns a significant amount of retail establishments was yelling to me the other day about, doesn't your union message, representing every worker at every union, while they are fighting about their pensions, in five years i will not have a person in a truck taking goods from the warehous

joining us from our oxford newsroom is professor anna nekaris from oxford brookes university, who waswith extinction. that seems an extraordinarily high number. most of the animals are living in tropical forests, number. most of the animals are living in tropicalforests, the number. most of the animals are living in tropical forests, the at threat from human activity, so is not really a surprise that the number is so high. what can be done, in your view? what needs to be done urgently in your view? what needs to be done urge ntly to in your view? what needs to be done urgently to try to reverse this trend? humans have become really selfish. we're having a huge demand on the environment, changing resources all the time, travelling over, becoming a global economy which has a lot of positive aspects, but we need to moderate our behaviour and realise that the way we are living now is not sustainable or stop moderate our behaviour, specifically how? what are the most urgent priorities would you say? certain things like the way we use palm oil in food and in soaps and in other additives on

. >> reporter: he's a graduate student in public policy at oxford university in england.hool he wrote the president a letter thanking him for being an inspiration. the president's reply inspired him even more. >> even though the letter was short in a number of words, probably the most profound words that have ever been addressed to me before. >> reporter: reed says she's seen an uptick in praise for the president as more say good-bye. >> i'll always regard you as my president because you were the president who believed in me. >> reporter: later today she'll select the final ten letters president obama will read in office. >> what do you hope the president walks away with? >> i hope that he country walk away with all of these people continuing to feel engaged and like their government here, that they can help change their government. think they's what he leaves with the government. i hope he walks away feeling pretty good about that. >> reporter: it's too late to send a letter to president obama but the white house will be accepting e-mail throughout the day. who knows. if

george magnus joining us from oxford university.llance," a conversation with the ukrainian president. petro poroshenko -- look for that conversation, 5:30 a.m. in new york, 10:30 a.m. in london. this is bloomberg. ♪ guy: welcome. i am guy johnson, with tom in zurich. breaking news about bmw and munich. what is going on in terms of the internal workings. he says he sees no reason to change the company's mexico plans. this will be a plant producing 3 series bmw. it will remain to be seen how much of donald trump's ideas will actually become law. i think basically he is questioning whether or not this thatmply a lot of tweets are working on others but will not work on bmw. tom: it will be interesting to see how it works out, particularly not so much january 21, but how we get into the spring. i would also note dollar-peso and the turkish lira are weaker this morning. of the two, i am following dollar-peso more so to see if we get a dash back to 22. how about a single-best chart. the single-best chart is sterling. but i want to talk abo

i received an e-mail yesterday from a professor who is the head of physics at oxford university who hadt the scientific community and build as much support for it as we can and we will negotiate when we engage in negotiations after march with the european union with the aim of creating a mechanism to allow research to go on. i will give way. i know the secretary of state is the most attentive minister but can i appeal to him at the start not to keep turning around and looking at people behind him, it is incredibly frustrating for the house. i know the natural temptation. i'm sure that was a valid point but it suffered from the disadvantage that i could not hear it. the consequence of this bill go much further than the secretary of state italy is. the government find it self in a position of such a basement to president trump because they have decided to abandon the high ground of the single market place without so of the single market place without so much as a negotiating word being spoken. that is why they are desperate to do a deal with anybody on any terms at any time. why did the s

we can speak now to professor alison young from oxford university, an expert in public law.es. theresa villiers for the conservatives, who campaigned for leave. labour's 0wen smith, who voted to remain. ukip's suzanne evans, who voted leave. stephen gethins for the snp, who voted remain. tom brake for the lib dems, who voted remain. and we've got an audience of voters from right across the uk. alison young, what do you expect to happen? that's the ten million dollar question. a chance to prove myself wrong in 15 minutes! my guess would be probably you need an act of parliament, but i don't think they will say that legally you have to consult the devolved governments as well. that would be my guess. so mps will get a vote? yes. it may not be 11, but a majority. exactly. owen smith it the government loses and you and your colleagues get a vote, will you vote against triggering article 50? possibly. i'm going to try and amend the bill because i think we will have a bill. i think that's right in order to make sure that's right in order to make sure that we've got a decent opport

in the fall of that same year he left for lincoln university in oxford pennsylvania. in his senior year at lincoln thurgood married vivian bure, a university of pennsylvania student known to her friends as buster. after graduation in june of 1929, the couple moved in with his parents in baltimore. and by the summer after college he had decided to continue on to law school. since his first choice, the university of maryland law school was segregated and off limits to blacks his only alternative was a night school with a poor reputation on three floors of a brownstone in washington dc. and in the fall of 1929, he began classes at the howard university school of law. thurgood marshall :i had to commute between baltimore and washington, which meant i got up about five in the morning and got home around eight. and then worked after i got home. i lost fifty-five pounds in one year. narrator: each day he would walk back and forth from union station to classes as early signs of the coming depression began to appear. howard law school was evolving from a part-time night school

. >>> a rhodes scholarship to the university of oxford is one of the most prestigious and difficult academicible. this year only 32 students were selected in the united states. harry smith has the extraordinary story of what one of them overcame to earn his trip to oxford. >> reporter: jordy fleming and his service dog daisy wend their way across the campus of the university of south carolina. remarkable, because as a child jory filled many of the boxes on the autism checklist: screaming, hypersensitivity, poor eye contact, limited communication. >> my majors are biography and marine science and i have a minor in geophysics. >> of course. what's your grade point average? >> currently it's a 4.0. i have one more semester. we'll see. >> that's kind of a joke because jory will be studying at ox that's right, this 22-year-old with autism has won a rhodes scholarship. >> i was very surprised. i thought they got the name wrong. >> reporter: his mom kelly says when he was through interviewing for the rhodes, he sent her a text. he was ready to leave. minutes later came a second text. >> his next te

this is, he has autism and is headed to the university of oxford thanks in large part to the effort ofs mother. she had a chance to pursue her career or home school her son, which he did. it's an incredible story. he said he's very grateful for his mom putting in so much effort. all things are possible. god bless them. very excited for the family and this young boy. >> we talked a little bit about the new year's eve special. the numbers came in today and were phenomenal. we should say thank you, k.g. pete ducey was in there. jesse and kennedy did a great job. we took over and did three hours. the numbers are in. total audience up 118%. a record for fox. also the demographic up from last year. >> thank you to the producers, control room, everybody. it was an a+ efforts. all things are possible when you've got a great team like that. >> congratulations. >> and happy new year. >> congratulations to arnold schwarzenegger, hosting the new edition of "celebrity apprentice." tough competition last night. he is terrific. >> you are terminated. >> are you going to be on again? >> will i be? if

in the fall, she will begin graduate studies at the university of oxford in england. >> i will startst degree in refugee enforced migration studies at oxford and pursue a second degree in collaborative theater making. >> the idea is to identify americanings who will be the -- americans who will be the next leader in their field so they can study at britain world class kellye: this year's class has 40 students and five have ties to the d.c. area. the program provides tuition and living expenses for graduate students for two years at the school of their choice. >> i'm real excited to get involved in the culture in london, the political movements that are happening in london. take two years to focus on my field. >> the real value for me more than anything is access to wonderful people interested to so many things in the world. kellye lynn. larry: tonight the liquor board bribe rare investigation nabs a lawmaker and how he filled his importants with a quarter of a million dollars. and trump's pick for attorney general pledges law and order. wile protesters make noise. two years after a w

he read law at college oxford and earned an advanced degree at the university of london and went on to found several legal and financial companies and open up an art gallery and educational projects focusing on the promotion of arab literature. he was the driving force that led to the creation of the campus and university abu dhabi and perhaps my favorite part of the resume, i hope you don't mind this, he spent five years trekking in switzerland experiencing nature to the fullest of tall peaks. all of these experiences including four languages and most important of all the role and responsibility as the father of two sons are at work and his writing of letters to a young muslim. the book is a collection that into his own children. the effort he said this to show them how to be faithful to islam and its deepest values as well as how to chart their way through a complex world. mr. ambassador, an do you know e book is written for your children but also with young muslims, young and old women in mind, and i might suggest if you don't mind that this book also want to be required reading for

joining me now, kehinde andrews from birmingham city university, and antony seldon joins us from oxfordketch, you thought, yes, this is what most of the syllabus taught in universities look like. do you think there is a bigger problem with them? i think that's really the problem. the problem is that the curriculum is so white, it is so euro sown trick that the school of oriental and african studies, the students say they're not learning enough from african and asian scholars. —— eurocentric. what's being said is that the education we're giving is so narrow we don't understand the social world. totally understandable, but do you think it's more applicable? entirely. i did sociology, looking at history, that's the same. there's a european canon. we are taught this is special knowledge, the idea of the enlightenment that european knowledge is to civilise the dark savage. this goes to the heart of the problems in society today. we need to unpick them so we can move forward. do you agree with that, somewhere we have got into this canon of accumulative experience and it's just time to blow th