10 December 2009
Bears, scares and hot air - How fear can trump facts in the climate debate
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Report damns Student Loan Company’s ‘conspicuous failures’
Sir Deian Hopkin’s analysis calls for overhaul of senior management in wake of processing blunders. Melanie Newman reports
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The insecure scholar: Charting the imbalance between reputation and career
A guest lectureship treat can’t compensate for job uncertainties
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Lord Browne begins
Fees and finance panel makes first call for evidence. John Morgan reports
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Opinion: Blood on our hands?
Academic evidence to the Iraq Inquiry points to the Government’s terrible planning, but the hearings’ remit is too narrow to tackle the big questions: the war’s legitimacy, the state’s culpability...
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Cumbria plans to ‘mothball’ historic campus
Protests greet university’s decision to end undergraduate provision at Ambleside. Melanie Newman reports
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Two vice-chancellor appointments announced
York St John and University of London name successors. Melanie Newman reports
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'Why not choose a happier subject?'
Sorcha Gunne and Zoë Brigley Thompson explain that they study rape and its narratives to understand and demythologise a difficult and unpleasant subject. But such is the taboo, it's tough to discuss...
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Poetry cornered
Goodbye, sweet Calliope, farewell Erato? In a consumerist world where speed and image rule, poetry's emotional meanings are being lost. Neil McBride muses, partly through verse, on the future of this...
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The French disconnection
Bruno Cousin and Michèle Lamont say academics at France's public universities need to rethink their strategy after this year's protests alienated the public and had little impact on the Government
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Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate
A more ambitious project than the contents convey is suggested by the subtitle of Ian Hesketh's book. It amounts to a discussion of what happened at the meeting of the British Association for the...
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The Canon: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. By Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a book of philosophy written in short, seemingly oracular, numbered remarks. Its conclusion suggests that those who understand its author will regard...
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Book of the week: Southern Horrors
Sexual violence was rife in the 19th-century US, as Mary Evans discovers
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Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse
Gwyn Prins on a book he says helps to wreck the chance for a mature debate on climate change
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The mythbuster
Although we may be unaware of it, a number of powerful preconceptions still dog our understanding of the turbulent history of Czechoslovakia, as Mary Heimann discovered. Matthew Reisz reports