The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind, by A. C. Grayling
An account of the vanquishing of superstition and magic makes some imprudent leaps, says Biancamaria Fontana
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New and noteworthy – 24 March 2016
Xenophobia new and old, questionable inflections, Paris' jazz diasporas and life on the skin of the Earth: must-read scholarly titles
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Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects, and the Making of a British World, 1860-1911, by Charles V. Reed
Pomp and circulation throughout the Empire linked monarch and subjects, Donald MacRaild writes
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Overseas student number falls ‘significant risk’ to sector
Hefce and Home Office figures show further declines in new overseas entrants and Indian student visas
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The Society of Genes, by Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher
It’s not all selfishness: Charalambos Kyriacou on how genes cooperate and combine forces to preserve their DNA dynasties
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What are you reading? – 24 March 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Elaine Showalter on Julia Ward Howe, a poet against all the odds of her era
Book of the week: For the poet told to lay down her pen on becoming a wife, writing was freedom, finds Catherine Clinton
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Campus sport is about more than winning or losing
Ahead of the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, Lincoln Allison ponders the decline of sport at university, and the value of such pursuits
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Geography’s place in the world
Is the subject’s amalgam of a wide range of subject matter and methodologies a strength or a weakness? Five scholars have their say
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Laurie Taylor – 24 March 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Ending casualisation will not only benefit early career academics
Like junior doctors, academics should highlight the public value of what they do, argues Tom Cutterham
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Government policy is wrecking science
Tim Birkhead warns of the ‘end of science’ unless academics push back against threats to creativity and integrity