Ulrich Beck, a sociologist, begins this book with Thomas Mann’s well-known injunction to a student audience in Hamburg in 1953 to strive for “not a German Europe, but a European Germany”. One measure...
Euan Clarkson is inspired by a detailed history and guide to a rich cluster of fossilised remains
The German Jesuit, Athanasius Kircher (1601/2-80), was one of the most prolific authors of the Baroque period. His Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652-54) and celebrated Museum of Antiquities (the justly...
One of the most interesting features of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is the author’s ambivalent attitude to the political model he so greatly assisted in popularising, through his...
Philip Kemp on how the US movie industry mostly ignored the rise of Fascism in Germany
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John Gilbey on a sharp account of the increasingly complex business of preventing unwanted emails
African American artist talks back to race and gender history in a dazzling jazz-tempo series in mixed media and Afrylics
PhDs are valuable political capital in Germany, Eastern Europe and beyond, but the currency has been devalued by a string of high-profile plagiarism cases at the very heart of government. Paul Jump...
Somewhere, in a class past or future, sits someone absolutely unforgettable - your worst student. Ever. John Kaag confronts the existential terror of a pedagogical puzzle
Institution’s experiment aims to clear gridlocked ‘gateway’. Jon Marcus reports from California
Dan roamingThe British Judo Association has chosen a university to house its Centre of Excellence in England. An independent performance review of the association earlier this year recommended the...
Christopher Bigsby on the declining art of hitch-hiking
This is the age of the anti-social network, but the humanities classroom offers reflection of a healthier sort, argues Robert Zaretsky
Technology has transformed psychology, but real insights come from considering humanity, too, argues Annette Karmiloff-Smith