Research standards must be maintained
Rather than the academy relaxing its ethical standards, perhaps areas of the media need to raise their game, argues Keith Richards
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Curriculum blind eye
It’s not what you teach but how that matters, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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So excited about Pedro Almódovar’s new film
The director returns to his roots in the screwball sex comedy I’m So Excited. By Lucy Bolton
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Alan Gregory, Peter Hill, E. Stina Lyon, R.C. Richardson and Paul White...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War by Peter Mandler
Chris Knight on an anthropologist whose theories were embraced then shunned by the US military
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The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain by Sarah Richardson
Susan Hogan on a challenge to analyses of 19th-century politics that marginalise the role of women
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The Second Arab Awakening: Revolution, Democracy, and the Islamist Challenge from Tunis to Damascus by Adeed Dawisha
Christina Hellmich on the complex dynamics reshaping the Arab world
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The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West by Brian P. Levack
Alec Ryrie on a persuasive account of demoniacs and how society perceived and dealt with them
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Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat by Jeffrey D. Simon
Matthew Feldman on the expanding threat to society from unpredictable individuals
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Alexander Wilson: The Scot who founded American Ornithology by Edward H. Burtt, Jr and William E. Davis, Jr
Tim Birkhead on the first comprehensive documenter of North American birds
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Panorama put LSE 'bystanders' at risk
Tim Luckhurst is incorrect to claim that the London School of Economics’ stance on the BBC Panorama programme “North Korea Undercover” was based on a “reverence for bureaucracy” or “wounded pride” (“...
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Just can't get the staff
Further to the article “Credibility of credibility interviews for foreign students called into question” (News, 18 April): border officers’ judgement is not the only cause for concern.Since...
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No purse, no strings
Universities should pay the closest attention to the debate under way within the Higher Education Funding Council for England (“Hefce treads warily amid dated legal framework”, News, 25 April). The...
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Harsh interrogation
In the viva, the student is vulnerable, the least powerful member in the room, and for this reason the process should be more open and subject to scrutiny (“Whim and rigour”, 25 April).My own...
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'Working-class' law suits
The stubborn narrative about the “best” universities remains pervasive in the public consciousness. In “Posh spice up CVs to gain edge at post-92s” (News, 11 April), you report on research that will...