How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump, by Laura Briggs
The ‘welfare queen’ myth and business’ power is crushing American families, says Lynne Segal
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Looking to London: Stories of War, Escape and Asylum, by Cynthia Cockburn
Emma Rees on a study of refugees’ remarkable transnational journeys in our post-Brexit, Trumpian world
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Buzzwords ‘helped universities get gold in the TEF’
Strong performers in the teaching excellence framework may have benefited from slick brand-building, Hepi report suggests
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The week in higher education – 19 October 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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EU scholars fear right to stay in UK ‘jeopardised by study leave’
Academic says he is ‘wary’ of applying for projects that involve extended periods of time overseas
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Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age, by Victoria Stewart
Rich and strange, detective tales of the 1920s and 1930s are worth unearthing, says Leo Mellor
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Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo, by Gary Bruce
Ulrike Zitzlsperger on an engaging account of the city’s attraction and what it tells us about society and politics
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‘Lean in’ to public advocacy in Trump era, US scientists told
Former chief of staff at White House Office of Science and Technology Policy says academics must put aside fears of ‘partisanship’
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What are you reading? – 19 October 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Books editor’s blog: Empty ideas and words – we’re talking business
The business world is plagued by bullshit on an industrial scale, but André Spicer wants to help workers escape from its corrosive effects and rediscover meaning
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Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party, by A. James McAdams
Book of the week: Communism around the world was shaped by its opportunistic leaders, finds Yvonne Howell