Douglas Kellner came of age at Columbia University during the student demonstrations of 1968, and his work has a political drive that continually harks back to the protest ethic of that period. His...
Why is the Church like margarine?This sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but is actually one of the questions addressed in Roland Barthes' Mythologies, which first appeared in 1957. Inspired by...
The obsession with the private lives of the famous is not a new phenomenon, writes Sharon Ruston
Despite numerous efforts by scholars over recent years to reassess approaches to the popular music canon, it would seem that most publishing houses (university presses included) have felt...
How do ideas travel across cultures? The locks of Washington DC's canal, a park ranger will proudly tell you, were designed by Leonardo da Vinci; Thomas Jefferson developed his tastes in wine, and...
BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS- Strategy by Design: A Process of Strategy InnovationBy James Carlopio, associate professor of management, Bond University, Australia. Palgrave Macmillan, £48.50. ISBN...
Ursula Martin discovers much about an IT pioneer's work, but too little about her personality
Our most likely modern experience of live-in servants is with the nanny, subject of countless horror stories at dinner parties. Working and living in someone else's home puts both employee and...
There is a story that in 1930 the great mathematician John von Neumann emerged from a seminar delivered by Kurt Gödel saying: "It's all over." Gödel had just proved the two theorems about the logical...
While delighted to see critical thinking covered by Linda Elder's article "Reason to live" (18 February), I take issue with some of her assumptions. She offers a rather reductionist view of thinking...
Amanda Goodall states that the core business of a university is research and teaching ("Raise your game", 18 February), but a news story covering a conference address by John Haldane is headlined: "...
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's diatribe against cats and their owners appears to employ similar arguments to those advanced in John Haldane's diatribe against researchers: both assume an "either/or"...
Times Higher Education recently noted that the University of Central Lancashire spent more than £80,000 trying to prevent its homeopathy course material from being exposed ("Hush money", 18 February...
Within hours of online publication, the article "'Frankensite' monsters loom as universities lose control of content" (18 February) had attracted a score of impassioned comments concerning the...
John Curry poses an interesting question about the future of higher education in further education (Letters, 18 February). Undoubtedly, some universities will question the future of such partnerships...