Things fall apart
Death and taxes: even nature is in on the act. Omar Malik discusses entropy's effects on human organisations ... and what can be done to combat the constant risk of system failure
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Brussels cash comes at a terrible price
As cash-strapped UK science increasingly looks to Europe for funding, Yorick Wilks warns of a rotten framework of red tape, intellectual corruption and cronyism driven by bureaucrats in pursuit of...
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Shakespeare Only
Like the parrot in the Monty Python sketch, the author is no more. Literary texts, we are assured, come into being as a patchwork of cultural fragments, quotations and half-quotations and...
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No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4' 33"
David Revill finds much of value in an examination of one of the best-misunderstood works of our time
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Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement
Given that today the majority of British women (and men) support feminist demands such as equal access to higher education, the right to contraception, abortion on demand and equal pay, what is it...
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Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979
How could jihadi violence break out in a country seen as the historical heartland of Islam and ruled by a state that boasts about its many Islamic credentials? Here, Thomas Hegghammer unpacks the...
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Published this week
ARTS AND DESIGNFado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the CityBy Richard Elliott, teacher, International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University. Ashgate, £55.00. ISBN...
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Book of the week: Whistling Vivaldi And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
Richard Crisp is inspired by this journey into 'stereotype threat' and the power we have to rise above its constraints
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Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution
Katrina Honeyman on a revealing study of the stories of young workers in industrialising Britain
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Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe
Human trafficking, along with other forms of criminal and institutionalised exploitation of politically and economically disadvantaged people, is among the most pressing and horrific problems of our...
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The Canon: Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction by Brian W. Aldiss
I first read Billion Year Spree by mistake. It was the mid-1970s, and I was working a shift at my local public library. The pay was low, but the company was good and I managed to get first pick of...
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News Talk: Investigating the Language of Journalism
Ben McConville appreciates a thought-provoking insight into journalese and those who speak it
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What is Radical Politics Today?
Where will radicalism go now that traditional party politics is smeared with corruption? I predict a riot. Well, perhaps not - maybe a nice cup of tea and a copy of The Guardian, for all us armchair...
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UUK has failed to stop decline of teaching
In last week's Letters pages, Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, attacked the editor of Times Higher Education for accusing UUK of "hysteria and hyperbole" over the issue of impending cuts ("...
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International velvet
Andy Masheter clearly recognises the dangers that could arise if UK universities engage in the "reckless exploitation of the overseas market" (Opinion, 24 June). I strongly believe, however, that UK...