In Defence of the Enlightenment
On what intellectual and moral bases do we wish to construct our communal life? We will not receive any help from politicians (obsessed as they are with political correctness, greed and getting or...
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Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory, and Post-Secular Modernity
Edward Quipp is provoked by a portrayal of key moments in English literary and cultural history
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Personal Responsibility: Why It Matters
Quite rightly, Alexander Brown appears to think that a book entitled Personal Responsibility: Does It Matter? would be an unnecessary prequel. Here, he is evidently happy to accept the importance of...
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The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood
The stupendous waves of globalisation are, the economic historians tell us, well over a century old, but their terrific riptides - swirling, contradictory, uncontrollable - demand unprecedented new...
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The Universe: Order Without Design
This book tackles a large question in cosmology: Is the Universe designed for life? To which I am tempted to add my own query: is that question posed with sufficient clarity to inform rational...
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The Future of Newspapers
No British scholar has done more than Bob Franklin, of the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, to make the academic study of journalism relevant to journalists. This collection...
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Published this Week
(J) = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob LawrenceBy Patricia Hills, professor of art history, Boston University. University of California Press, £34.95. ISBN...
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In search of a good companion
Matthew Reisz weighs up the role of weighty tomes of literary reference in the digital age
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The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
Humboldt is unfashionable in our postcolonial age, but it’s time for a renaissance, says Jeremy Jennings
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Rankings must reflect teaching's importance
I wholeheartedly applaud your efforts to refocus the methodology for the Times Higher Education World University Rankings ("Redrawing ranking rules for clarity, reliability and sense", 10 December)....
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Differential impact 1
The latest Times Higher Education devoted an editorial and two articles to concerns about the proposal to include "impact" as a factor in assessing the quality of research and scholarship under the...
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Hoary argument
Alan Ryan has got it completely wrong ("Offing the cap", 17/24 December). The idea of tuition fees was originally sold to us as a way of permitting 50 per cent of all pupils leaving secondary school...
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Teaching hypocrisy
Is it very surprising that a study states that research-driven universities are just paying lip service to the recognition of good teaching ("Pedagogy a poor second in promotions", 10 December)? For...
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Religious tensions
Your article "Something rotten? Row over Wales' validation of 'fundamentalist' BAs" (10 December) raises some interesting questions about the Danish university system, theological training and not...
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Making a rehash of it
Sally Feldman may regret the passing of local newspapers, but if people wanted to read about "frying eggs on pavements, confronting noisy neighbours and tackling trespassing tree-huggers", local...