The plight of Libya’s academics should concern us all
The post-Gaddafi chaos has turned some campuses into war zones – with students among the fighters, says Darren Linvill
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A Short History of Medieval Christianity, by G. R. Evans
A slim volume masters a millennium’s worth of material, but women fall away, says Rachel Moss
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Knowing the Score: How Sport teaches us about Philosophy (and Philosophy about Sport), by David Papineau
Lincoln Allison confronts the objectives of an anecdotal and argumentative narrative
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One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality, by Jeremy Waldron
When considering what exactly makes one creature equal to another, John Shand finds that an animal’s potential holds the key
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Researching singing mice: did you ever hear such a thing in your life?
From the Victorian slum-dwellers whose lives were transformed after they found a warbling rodent, to the jazz-like sound of mouse music, Richard Sugg says that if you take strange stories seriously,...
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Oxford tribunal rules against compulsory retirement rule
Reinstatement of professor over age discrimination must force rethink over ‘unfair’ retirement rules, say campaigners
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The week in higher education – 6 July 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Architecture, Death and Nationhood: Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy, by Hannah Malone
James Stevens Curl heaps praise on a fascinating study and pays tribute to the scholarly tenacity that it is built on
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Francophone higher education in Canada is not just about Quebec
The western provinces’ French-speaking universities reinforce a Canadian identity that is bilingual and multicultural, say Gabor Csepregi and Rodney Clifton
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Fifty shades of conference feedback
From steely-eyed sadists to licky Labradors, ingénue academics should beware of the cast of kinky characters who flock to academic get-togethers, says Tara Brabazon
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New and noteworthy – 6 July 2017
Cultivating climate-friendly habits, a masculine discourse on devilry, how to power up and power through scholarly writing, and Black Power’s push into the centre
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The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding, by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber
Book of the week: Tom Stafford on an account of how social activity, not brilliant individual deduction, leads to truth
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New horizons: economics in the 21st century
Economists’ stock plummeted with the financial crash. The authors of a new book suggest that reading novels could sharpen their insights, while four academics consider how the field might need to...
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Laurie Taylor – 6 July 2017
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