Den brittiske författaren Alain de Botton försöker överbrygga konflikten mellan troende och ateister. I sin senaste bok vill han visa att ett…
GK Chesterton, in the chapter ”The Ethics of Elfland” in the book Orthodoxy (1908), talks about ”the democracy of the dead”. This…
On August 30 this year, Education Minister Jan Bjorklund in DN Debate wrote about the government’s forthcoming effort on ’elite research’. The…
Great efforts have always been made by the forces of law to control and regulate human sexuality. To some extent, these efforts…
Archaeology professor Anders Andren says in the foreword to the anthology Pre-modern Globality (2011) about how the excavations at Helgö in Mälaren…
Blaise Pascal was certainly not the first to reflect on the theme of this issue of Axess: the relationship between religion, science…
”My intention is that of the Senate’s decisions I merely wish to cite those that stand out for their nobleness or meanness;…
The aesthetics that support the French Islamists’ videos are as confusing as Anders Behring Breivik’s film with knights who try to hold…
GK Chesterton talar i kapitlet ”The Ethics of Elfland” i boken Othodoxy (1908) om ”de dödas demokrati”. Detta i kontrast till ”den…
Få torde vara så väl skickade att hålla i trådarna, när ett praktverk om August Strindberg ska ges ut under jubileumsåret 2012,…
Vetenskapssamhället har historiskt sett varit allt annat än förskonat från forskning som har baserats på vetenskapliga trender snarare än på kritiskt sanningssökande.

På 1990-talet aktualiserades frågan om nazisternas konststölder. Man fann att tusentals konstverk ännu inte har återlämnats till sina rättmätiga ägare, säger Evelien…
Det som slår mig när jag har nått slutsidorna i Åke Lundqvists bok om Dagens Nyheters kulturbevakning, Kultursidan. Kulturjournalistiken i Dagens Nyheter…
Olle Matsson är professor i kemi vid BMC i Uppsala och tillika deckarkonnässör. Denna kombination har resulterat i den uppslagsrika studien En…
Stora ansträngningar har genom tiderna gjorts från maktens sida för att kontrollera och reglera människors sexualitet. I någon mån kan dessa strävanden…

Den akademiska expertisen spelar en stor roll när det gäller att få till stånd en värdeökning på konst. Redan i slutet av…
Det är inte förvånande att den kulturella blomstringen i Spanien under 1500-talet – med konstnärer som Velázquez och författare som Cervantes -…
In Dante’s case, one can assume that the admiration and interest that he continues to inspire has to do with how he…
A self-sustaining ecosystem has been created, where art critics can only get access to the ’honey pots’ by playing along and dismissing…
That the proponents of conservative values have, in recent decades, experienced strong headwinds, is due to the state-regulated low interest rate policy…
Perhaps the Social Democrats can, in a time of tightening contradictions, increasing tribalism and the rise of extremism, once again play the…
It is undeniably amazing, the power with which the theories of social and cultural constructions have taken hold in our time. Not…
Is Sweden becoming like the rest of Europe? As in most European countries, Sweden has, since September 2010, had a populist, nationalist…
”What is civilization? I do not know. I cannot define it in abstract terms. But I think I would recognise it when…
The turn of 2010/2011 seems in many ways to have marked the reemergence of the political assassin.

Cultural heritage should be seen from an international and cross-border perspective, rather than as connected to different group identities. The way in…
On 6 May 2010 there occurred the largest and fastest collapse to date on the New York and Nasdaq stock exchanges. The…
”We are not satisfied with the life that we possess within ourselves and in our own lives: we want to live in…
Homogeneity of opinion and consensus does not necessarily mean that the ruling party’s opinions permeate every corner of public life. Cultural life…

The Danish journalist Mikael Jalving calls Sweden the country of silence. Sydsvenskan’s Per Svensson disagrees. Johan Lundberg leads a discussion on national…