Academics arrested as Iran crackdown escalates
Seventy reformist scholars are detained by the authorities, writes John Gill
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Outside looking in
The UK's external examiner system is supposed to uphold standards across the sector. Rebecca Attwood asks if it still does the job
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Off-the-shelf solutions
By cutting print stocks, university libraries can provide student-friendly services like wired-up work areas and social spaces. Are academics right to fear a loss of scholarly resources? asks Hannah...
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There's space for all of us
Astronomy arouses passion in both scientific and religious circles. Few spend their lives studying the Universe, but Brother Guy Consolmagno hopes the International Year of Astronomy will bring out...
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Book of the week: Frames of War
Angela McRobbie finds hope for a new politics in an examination of image, others and us
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Quoting Death in Early Modern England
Peter J. Smith deciphers how commemorative texts reflect historical and religious influences
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The Myth of Digital Democracy
There's something about democracy and the internet that brings out the cranks. The ever-swelling internet punditocracy includes an unusually large number of charlatans and chancers, peddling stories...
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The Canon: The Making of the English Working Class. By E.P. Thompson
My task was to identify a book of such influence that the field of cultural studies would be diminished by its absence. While pausing at Raymond Williams' The Long Revolution, Richard Hoggart's The...
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Right-thinking aesthetic
Matthew Reisz talks to Roger Scruton, the UK's leading conservative intellectual, about academia, music, politics and his latest book, Beauty
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Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
Alec Ryrie enters the world of Icelandic farting magic and phallic-Buddhist Rosicrucianism
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Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics
Jeremy Gilbert got the job that Marx wanted but didn't get. The young Marx had mentors, colleagues and aspiring peers in German universities publishing critiques and polemics on the political culture...
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The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency
Roger Morgan learns of the diplomatic deal-making that made the eurozone a reality
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EDUCATION- Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Don't Do LanguagesBy Jo Carr, senior lecturer, School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland University of Technology, and...
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The week in higher education
•Wales is to get a Chief Scientific Adviser for the first time in its history, it was announced on 16 June. The decision follows years of lobbying and a review into the position last year.•Bambang...
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Reductionism won't save the world
As confirmed interdisciplinarians, there were very few points with which we could agree in Robert Segal's article "Crossing borders can lead to gold - but so can digging deep" (18 June). Having...