Deborah Lipstadt: the quest for truth in the post-truth era
How do you defeat Nazis and liars? Focus on the people in earshot, says eminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt
How do you defeat Nazis and liars? Focus on the people in earshot, says eminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt
Oxford Union is standing by its decision to invite David Irving, the Holocaust denier, to address students in a debate on May 10. He will oppose the motion, "this house would restrict free speech of...
Our age of unenlightenment demands that institutions share their intellectual and moral capital with the communities around them
This survey covers the main trends in Holocaust studies but it would have benefited from a more international scope, says Neil Gregor
The Toepfer affair at the University of Oxford ("Tainted money?", 10 March) raises important questions about the way universities handle complaints about allegedly tainted donations and also about...
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Richard Evans, Cambridge's new Regius professor of modern history, finds much to be optimistic about in his discipline
Commercial litigator Anthony Julius is due to become chairman of the London Consortium on September 1 Anthony Julius, best known for defending Jewish author Deborah Lipstadt in the libel case brought...
Deborah Lipstadt was sued by David Irving for libel. She won, but she fears charging him with denying Nazi crimes only raises his profile The last time David Irving was in court, I was the defendant...
Last week in The THES... Ken Richardson argued that aptitude tests would not get more working-class children into university. Anyone interested in the way that scholastic aptitude tests work should...
Your interview with Kary Mullis demonstrates how little has been learned by British journalists about Aids in the past decade ("Cresting controversy", THES, April 23). The clinical association...
A previously unknown cache of letters written by T. S. Eliot to be published next week will add fuel to a bitter literary dispute over whether one of the 20th century's greatest poets was anti-...
By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed
This week David Irving lost his libel action against Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher Penguin Books. He had sued over claims in Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust, that he was a "Hitler...
Two renowned Holocaust scholars have rounded on Birmingham University for its decision to stand by a "flawed" PhD thesis that argues that a prominent survivor of Hitler's death camps could have been...