US faculty face more stringent checks in wake of shooting
The killing of three academics at the University of Alabama could lead to controversial criminal background checks of lecturers. Jon Marcus reports
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Reason to live
Socrates dreamt of a society of critical thinkers. Linda Elder explores how we can cultivate Socratic traits and methods to develop clear-headed and rational thought
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Book of the week: Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy
A fresh look at an old controversy is revealing, finds Martin Cohen
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The War that Killed Achilles
Barbara Graziosi enjoys the clarity of a summary of the Iliad but finds some comparisons narrow
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Nanoethics: Big Ethical Issues with Small Technology
Biotechnology, and nanotechnology in particular, "raises moral questions that are not simply difficult in the familiar sense but are of an altogether different kind". So quotes, approvingly, Donal O'...
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The Canon: Nikolai Gogol. By Vladimir Nabokov
What a happy task to be asked to choose a definitive title from one's "personal canon". I recommend Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol. Written in 1944, this little book about the 19th-century Russian writer...
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Don't Be Such a Scientist
Kevin Fong reaches an uncomfortable realisation that science communicators need to improve
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A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age
A brilliant but troubled young physicist, in the same league of achievement as Einstein, boards a ship in Palermo on a spring night in 1938, passport and cash in hand. He is soon assumed dead,...
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The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa
It's a very contemporary scenario. Young soldiers face a hostile and alien environment full of Muslim insurgents with inadequate equipment. Military aims are unclear. On a remote front line, mission...
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ART AND DESIGN- Two Eyes of the Earth: Competition and Exchange in the Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian IranBy Matthew P. Canepa, assistant professor of art history, College of...
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A perverse formula for national funding
The Government's policy to concentrate research in fewer so-called "elite" universities seems odd to me ("'Golden triangle' to win funding riches", 11 February). First, in a political world where the...
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False dichotomy 1
You have misrepresented the University and College Union's position on academic freedom. In your editorial, "Rise up, freedom fighters" (11 February), you say that the UCU "doesn't really get...
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False dichotomy 2
"Academic freedom" sounds like special pleading. Democracy among other things is the ongoing struggle for freedom of expression - a freedom that extends to all members of society regardless of their...
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Alumni's plea: think again
As historians who owe so much to the University of Sussex environment in which we were trained, we are calling on the university to stop its proposals to withdraw from research and research-led...
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Further extinction?
The growth of higher education delivered within further education colleges was a rational move by universities. Local colleges could provide potential growth without the need for significant capital...