Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism, by Lucas Graves
Having newshounds verify assertions does not in itself untangle complicated issues, Ivor Gaber says
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Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism, by Alain Brossat and Sylvie Klingberg, translated by David Fernbach
Clive Bloom on the utopians who struggled to realise their dream of a building a secular socialist Jewish state in Europe
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Against Everything: On Dishonest Times, by Mark Greif
Robert Eaglestone on an insightful investigation of how we experience contemporary life
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The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia, by Mary M. Talbot and Brian Talbot
Lisa Mckenzie admires the powerful use of the graphic novel to tell the story of Louise Michel, a 19th-century revolutionary feminist
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Books interview: Cass Sunstein
The legal scholar and nudger-in-chief on Marvel Comics, where to begin with behavioural economics, and Star Wars and President Obama
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The scholar given a year to save Tunisia
Tawfik Jelassi, universities minister after the Jasmine Revolution, on losing his anonymity and being taken hostage by students
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UK’s university schools plan shows ‘more government control’
Birmingham free school key example for Theresa May, but critics warn of ‘incoherence’ in schools system
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Nordic higher education in decline?
The region’s reputation for excellence could be threatened by funding cuts and restructuring
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The week in higher education – 15 September 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Laurie Taylor – 15 September 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grammar schools: the personal ends up political
UK prime minister May’s schools and higher education policymaking relies on anecdote and politicians’ own experience, not evidence
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Grant winners – 15 September 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Life with an abusive lab boss: one postdoc’s story
Why are postgraduates and postdocs so expendable and professors so untouchable, asks a geneticist subjected to a paranoid boss’ abuse
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Could refusal to reveal graduate premium lead to a fraud charge?
David Palfreyman considers how secretiveness about the benefits a graduate might expect might fall foul of trading regulations