Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity, by Paul Readman
Caroline Edwards enjoys an impressive but flawed history of cultural nationalism
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It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics, by David Faris
Book of the week: internal problems are not addressed in this plan to save the Democrats, writes Heather Gautney
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The bruising effect of the impact agenda
We are right to celebrate the contributions that research makes to society, but why don’t we talk more about the costs? asks Rosa Freedman
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The spirit of 1968: global perspectives on the student revolution
While the Sorbonne was at the epicentre of the 1968 protests, the shock waves were felt far beyond France, with students occupying Peking and UC Berkeley at the same time. A group of academics...
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The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191, by John D. Hosler
A study seeks to fill the lacuna in coverage of a key Crusades conflict, says Thomas Asbridge
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Scrapping selective admissions would only postpone the inevitable
For all the criticism it gets, the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank remains a cheap and efficient selection system that plausibly links entry criteria to academic outcomes, says Andrew Norton
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What are you reading? – 24 May 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Laurie Taylor – 24 May 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Pluralistic academy is a model for politics in a polarised society
Politicians and social media warriors could learn a lesson from the ‘ivory towers’ they are so quick to deride: plurality and exchange of ideas are good things
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Women: long the majority in UK HE and FE
I read with interest your feature on the ever-increasing number of women in higher education worldwide (“Why is Martha doing better than Arthur?”, 10 May), but it missed an important point. At least...
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No diatribe
In his letter “End ideologues’ reign over imperial history” (3 May), Zareer Masani accuses us of “character assassination”. To use his words, we take strong exception to this unsubstantiated...
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Electoral oversights
In their book How Democracies Die: What History Tells Us about Our Future (Books, 8 March), Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer some possibly useful critical analysis, but I am shocked by their...
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Facing cyberthreats
UK higher education is undergoing significant change, and as technology is central to most of it, institutions must be cognisant of the threat and impact of growing cyberattacks on universities in...