On a clear night, it is nice to look up and imagine that all the stars form a unified celestial community. They do, of course, in a sense. But they are much farther away from each other (and us) than...
I have long admired the immense contribution made to the Enlightenment by French scholars, especially Denis Diderot, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and others manifest in that vast undertaking, the...
A study of a homosexual subculture will provoke debate from all quarters, discovers Ken Plummer
Any book that defends the humanities is to be welcomed. The threat to their existence is not just from the politicians who want to make them more business-facing but from those within their own ranks...
Dale E. Gary enjoys reading about the surprising public outcry that followed Pluto's demotion
The modern history of the "Irish Question" begins with Fenianism, a mid-Victorian organisation that developed and adapted the strategies of militant nationalist activity that would become commonplace...
In the past two decades, musicologists have realised the importance of putting an operatic work in a historical, cultural, theatrical and literary context. For the most part, the research of opera...
Adam Rutherford finds little intellectual punch in an analysis of impossibly muscly men in tights
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Management of Everyday LifeEdited by Philip Hancock, senior lecturer in organisation studies, University of Warwick, and Melissa Tyler, senior lecturer in organisation...
Your report on the dearth of foreign-language skills among British graduates emphasises one of the problems that has beset the long-running debate about the decline of such skills in higher education...
While it is essential that more school pupils choose one or two languages at GCSE level, UCL's decision to stand alone in making a C grade in a foreign-language GCSE an entry requirement is perhaps...
Your excellent critique of the marginalisation of languages in British education nevertheless fails to stress their full importance for research, especially in the humanities. Researchers need...
It is that time of year again when those of us with pending funding applications make the trip to the office post room a little more often. I have been waiting on several responses, in common with...
"In my opinion, the book is racist - or at least as close to racism as you can get in writing without breaking the law," Thomas Hegghammer writes in his review of my book The Mind of Jihad (11 June...
Of the two academics you quote in "Sandpits bring out worst in infantilised researchers" (2 July), the first, Thomas Docherty, hasn't been to one; the second, an unnamed researcher, apparently hasn't...