How much research is done on gun violence in the US?
Bibliometric data suggest there should be more scholarship on the topic, but academics still make key contributions to debate
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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
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Laurie Taylor – 19 October 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Does liberal arts education have an image problem?
Liberal arts colleges are often perceived as being elite and irrelevant. But the best among them excel in areas such as engagement and focus on critical thinking. Ellie Bothwell explores whether...
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KEF is so Soviet
The government wants to develop a “knowledge excellence framework” for English universities, the universities and science minister has announced (“Jo Johnson plans for KEF to measure knowledge...
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Enterprise essential
Your feature “Are graduates worth their salt?” (12 October) asks an important question. Having written for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and for the European Commission’s...
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Journals' value
Re “Publishers vs ResearchGate: an academic’s view” (Opinion, 10 October). It is increasingly clear that publishers have done a poor job of explaining to the research community just what it is that...