The long view: scholars assess the state of history
Five historians reflect on the disciplinary, institutional, social and political challenges facing their subject
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China’s Crisis of Success, by William Overholt
Book of the week: Jonathan Mirsky wonders at the wisdom of making this Asian ‘miracle’ a model for rapid development
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Laurie Taylor – 15 February 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Books editor’s blog: stand up for deviants and oddballs
The contributions to come from a conference held last year at the threatened Central European University and discuss why it’s so vital to defend the academy’s core values
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What are you reading? – 15 February 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Cheating death: books will enjoy many afterlives
It is not an uncommon experience these days for one to exclaim “seriously?” at something that seems too absurd to even contemplate, and that is exactly what I found myself thinking while reading Al...
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Support act
Work-related stress in the context of “non-academic” and administrative support roles could be addressed more aptly in the “global work-life balance survey” (“Get a life? No time for that!”, Features...
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Status anxiety
Hell hath no fury like a professional deprofessionalised by ambitious, managerial, neoliberal, corporate, robotic order-followers ( “Hell hath no fury like an academic suspended” , Opinion, 8...
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California’s drought
On reading “US state systems freeze tuition fees as enrolment falters” (News, 8 February), my thoughts turned to California. For 100 years (from 1868 to 1967), the state’s taxpayers funded the zero-...
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Forever young
In the biographical sketch of Kori Schake, the author of Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony ( “When Britannia waived its rule” , Books, 8 February), Matthew Reisz writes...
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THE to launch new innovation ranking
League table may include metrics on university spin-off companies and research publications co-authored with industry
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£6K fees ‘could leave English universities £3.3 billion poorer’
Lower sticker price for degrees would do nothing to help poorer students, says London Economics analysis
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Colombian students stage miniskirt protest over ‘sexist’ advice
Pontifical Bolivarian University told students not to ‘distract’ classmates and teachers with low necklines, short skirts or tight-fitting clothes