Philip Ball: We enjoy the whiff of scandal, and we love seeing giants knocked off their pedestals. But we shouldn't rush to judgments of scientists' motivations
16 Oct 2011:
Max Hastings's sympathetic history of the second world war breathes new life into a familiar tale by focusing on the experiences of ordinary people, writes Ian Thomson
5 Oct 2011:
Controversial director Lars von Trier issues a statement refusing all future interviews after police question him over his apparent defence of Hitler at the Cannes film festival
After country singer Hank Williams Jr compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler on Fox News, sports channel ESPN cancelled his Monday Night Football gig. Good call?
First published in the Guardian on 14 September 1970: Should West Germans hippies be tolerated or should they be made to undergo a period of forced labour?
29 Aug 2011: Judith Butler: The Big Ideas: In her treatise on the banality of evil, Arendt demanded a rethink of established ideas about moral responsibility