Expel Israeli ambassador, UCU Congress will demand
Conference motion will call on Government to support Palestinian self-determination, but an academic boycott of Israel is not on the agenda. Melanie Newman reports
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The Bullied Blogger: Nothing can stop the Spanish Inquisition
14 April: Dominic did not check my last email to human resources and when he arrives home and reads it he is despairing. He feels I am too stressed and too emotionally involved to be able to write...
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British academic’s work used to justify US torture
Professor Jim Horne is ‘saddened and appalled’ by Bush Administration’s efforts to exploit his book to excuse 180-hour stints of sleep deprivation. Melanie Newman reports
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Security expert hits back at UUK memo
Chief executive Diana Warwick tells v-cs that she ‘briefed’ Today programme about Anthony Glees, but academic reiterates claim that universities’ student visa procedures are too lax. Melanie Newman...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers.
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Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy
An analysis of how higher education is responding to current challenges impresses Huw Morris
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Political Tourism and Its Texts: Cultural Spaces
The most conspicuous feature of Maureen Moynagh's book on political tourism is its style; conspicuous because she confesses it early, insistently. Page one, paragraph two: "This study speaks to the...
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The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945
When I first picked up Martin Francis' The Flyer, with its cover portrait of a handsome young airman by Eric Henri Kennington, I expected yet another collection of tales of derring-do by British...
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Darwin's Luck: Chance and Fortune in the Life and Work of Charles Darwin
Stephen Halliday enjoys an unusual book about Darwin, but wonders at its focus on his fortunes
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Exploring Professionalism
As this review is for Times Higher Education, I will confine myself to the question "Are academics professional?"That wisest of all vice-chancellors, Eric Ashby, touched twice in his life on this...
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Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility
Alex Khasnabish's Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility is an ambitious and timely book that examines the resonance of the revolutionary movement Zapatismo, and its...
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Book of the week: Einstein's Telescope
Simon Mitton looks at the cosmos through a lens made of space-time
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The week in books
Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis by John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond professor of economics, Stanford University...
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Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
The small support networks and micro-publics that help scholarship flourish intrigue Andreas Hess
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Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen
I sometimes think that if it were not for her coins, Queen Zenobia would be taken as a legendary figure, at least as fanciful as Semiramis of Babylon, or Shirin, the Armenian princess who became the...