A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
Susan James is impressed by an admirable study of a thinker who retains the power to disturb
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Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon
Alex Danchev is ambivalent about a selection of images with status beyond their initial intent
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The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists
Charles Kurzman, a sociologist and Iran specialist at the University of North Carolina, clearly enjoys the fact that, when faced with the statement he posits in his book's subtitle, security experts...
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The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I
There were many flamboyant and charismatic figures at the Elizabethan Court, but Francis Walsingham was not one of them. Pessimistic and puritanical, a tireless administrator and notorious spymaster...
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Who's Afraid of China? The Challenge of Chinese Soft Power
Kerry Brown agrees it will take time for mutual understanding as China engages with the world
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The Castrato and His Wife
The Castrato and His Wife opens with a brief sketch of a documented evening at the London residence of the Spanish ambassador, with the famed Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) the prime attraction, and then...
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December 1941
It was the year that marked the turning point of the Second World War and shaped the post-war world. 1941 began with Germany victorious in Western Europe and challenged only by a Britain that was...
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New Galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Christina Riggs takes a clockwise tour around an exhibition that draws on fresh ways of thinking about Nile Valley civilisation
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Diary
SouthamptonTerry Smith: ParallaxProlific, committed and quietly subversive, Terry Smith is a major British artist who consistently works under the radar of the mainstream. He claims to have "no...
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The Pick - Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany
Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from GermanySaatchi Gallery, London, until 30 April 2012Dirk Bell's Abgrund (Abyss) is an oil portrait of a naked woman seen from behind, her body pink against a white...
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'Professors are born' - shock claim
According to one of our leading academics, Professor Gordon Lapping of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, the recent report on the professoriate by the Leadership Foundation for Higher...
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Say it ain't so, Joe: US sector's pact with the drop-kick devil
Penn State scandal shows sport's stranglehold on American academy. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
• Academics and students were united in their outrage at the treatment of protesters doused with pepper spray at the University of California, Davis. The incident on 18 November led to the suspension...
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Leader: Young, gifted and slapped
Why is it that when young people express frustration at the bleak future they see ahead, we respond with another kick in the shins?
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From where I sit - India's star may be slow to ascend
India has long been the "sleeping giant" of Asia. Research in the university sector, stagnant for at least two decades, is now accelerating but it will be a long haul to restore the country as an...