Marek Kohn



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Full name: Marek Kohn

Area of interest: Evolution, Biology and Society

Journals: The Guardian | New Statesman

Email: [mailto:marek@marekkohn.tk marek@marekkohn.tk]

Websites: Marek Kohn.tk; (what I do)

Blog: Comment is free...

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Biography:
Education: University of Sussex: Neurobiology

Career: Wellcome Museum of Medical History: junior curator - three years, left to become a freelance writer. Wrote some of his first articles for The Face and then for a range of magazines and newspapers, including the 'Second Site' column in The Independent on Sunday

Current position/role: freelance


 * also writes/has written for: reviews books for the Evening Standard, Independent on Sunday and The Independent

Other roles: writer and journalist

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Viewpoints/Insight: Ready Steady Book.com: interview by Stuart Watkins and Dave Flynn, 22nd March 2006

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Books & Debate:

 * Narcomania: on heroin OCLC 19127144, 1987
 * Dope girls: the birth of the British drug underground OCLC 27107603, 1992
 * The race gallery: the return of racial science OCLC 33497181, 1995
 * As we know it: coming to terms with an evolved mind OCLC 43951848, 1999
 * A reason for everything: natural selection and the English Imagination OCLC 57200626, 2004

Latest work: Trust: self-interest and the common good OCLC214305896 published June 2008 OUP

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Articles:

 * Brighton give Lucas the green light?'' - Caroline Lucas's campaign to become the first Green MP is gathering pace – but she hasn't won Brighton over yet - 4th February 2010
 * happened to trust?'' - Inequality and cool cynicism are eroding trust in our institutions. Your solution may depend on your view of human nature - 3rd November 2009
 * protection as political football'' - As state intrusion goes, these new vetting measures are hardly Stalinist. But safety comes at the cost of trust in our communities - The Guardian, 12th September 2009
 * faded vision of folk'' - The far right's affection for folk music stems from the misplaced emphasis on a need for English roots and identity - The Guardian, 31st July 2009
 * Who can you trust? - 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 - New Statesman, 26th June 2008
 * How Britain can help Poles - 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 - New Statesman, 5th June 2008
 * Work, save, go...or stay? - New Statesman, 11th October 2007
 * The Arctic killers - New Statesman, 9th August 2007
 * Brighton's postcode lottery - The new scheme for secondary school allocation has succeeded only in exposing the vicious competition between parents for places - The Guardian, 28th February 2007
 * Grateful dead: Observations on human remains - New Statesman, 6th November 2006
 * Marek Kohn on how a view of our ancestors helps us to define an image of ourselves - New Statesman, 30th October 2006
 * Marek Kohn wonders why, in most democracies, the word "populist" is an insult - New Statesman, 28th August 2006
 * Marek Kohn on why it could make sense that males think differently from females - New Statesman, 7th August 2006
 * It is time for the left to rediscover one of its core values - New Statesman, 10th July 2006
 * Colour shift: An ever-controversial topic is back on the scientific agenda - New Statesman, 12th June 2006
 * Recycling rage hits our doorsteps: Obsrvations on waste - New Statesman, 29th May 2006
 * This racist undercurrent in the tide of genetic research - As taboos fall away, there's a danger that denial of racial difference will be replaced with uncritical acceptance - The Guardian, 17th January 2006
 * The mohair berets are on the march: Observations on Poland - New Statesman, 19th December 2005
 * Why an unequal society is an unhealthy society - Poor relationships and low status don't just make people envious. They also interfere with the immune system and damage health - New Statesman, 26th July 2004
 * The race issue - If we want to understand our confusion about ethnic groupings we should start by looking at Europe - New Statesman, 30th July 2001



Links:

 * New Statesman articles
 * Prospect magazine: articles
 * Wikipedia bio