Tara Brabazon: Going Gaga
Popular culture is dismissed as trash by some academics, but as Lady Gaga – ‘Baudrillard in a bra’ – shows, there’s plenty of intellectual value in the dustbin. Tara Brabazon digs in
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Unconventional thinkers or recklessly dangerous minds?
Aids denialism is estimated to have killed many thousands. Jon Cartwright asks if scientists should be held accountable, while overleaf Bruce Charlton defends his decision to publish the work of an...
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My Eureka Moment - Hello, Dolly
A conversation in a Dublin bar in 1987 proved crucial to Sir Ian Wilmut's research and led ultimately to the first clone of an adult animal
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A trace of greatness
Why do scholars enjoy exploring their academic genealogies? Jon Adams believes it is a desire to be associated with a dynastic intellectual legacy
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Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present
Election results more accurately reflect choice of voting rule than voters' wishes, says Donald Saari
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The Astronaut's Cookbook: Tales, Recipes and More
"We want you to review something for us," says the email from the books editor. "It's called The Astronaut's Cookbook." At this point I know precisely nothing about this text but already I'm...
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The Canon: The Crisis of Public Communication
By Jay Blumler and Michael Gurevitch
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THE Book of the Week: Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics
Proofs of their genius: Tony Mann on the enduring notion of young rebels rewarded only by posterity
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Florence Nightingale at First Hand: Vision, Power, Legacy
Judith Schneid Lewis explores the enlightened social policy ideas of a thoroughly modern heroine
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Children and Adolescents in Trauma: Creative Therapeutic Approaches
The foreword to this book cuts right to the heart of the matter: that children who have awful experiences at the hands of adults may be impelled to adapt to their situation by acting in mindless or...
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Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives
Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez believe that a tipping point has been reached. While querying voices "are usually lost as history is written by the winners within the car system", the sheer...
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Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
Roger Brown hails an insightful study of scholastic performance and ethnicity on US campuses
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Published this week
(J) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Rethinking the Meaning of Place: Conceiving Place in Architecture-UrbanismBy Lineu Castello, invited professor at PROPAR: Research and Postgraduate Programme...
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Philosophical view: Middlesex, think again
We the undersigned deplore Middlesex University's recent decision to close its philosophy programmes, including its prestigious and successful MAs. This is a matter of national and indeed...
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Immovable barriers
J.D. Turner argues persuasively in favour of engineering as a career option ("Putting the world back in working order", 29 April), and makes some telling observations about the way the subject is...