To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe, by Matthew Lockwood
Elizabeth Cobbs is unconvinced by a lively revisionist account of what the American Revolution did to the wider world
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What are you reading? – 12 September 2019
Our fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Last Butterflies: A Scientist’s Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature, by Nick Haddad
Book of the week: Jules Pretty admires a powerful study of what a declining insect population reveals about how we are treating the planet
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Universities ‘must protect workers from automation’
World Economic Forum economist Saadia Zahidi says campuses must prevent ‘hollowing-out of the middle class’ for sake of social stability
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Teach students how to fail, says Fields Medallist
Italian mathematician Alessio Figalli says falling short demonstrates the testing and unknowable nature of research
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‘Clean break’ Brexit plan triggers fears for EU research deal
Shift in alignment towards US sparks doubts over Horizon Europe association
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The week in higher education – 12 September 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Share research funding more evenly across UK, urge MPs
Commons Science and Technology Committee also calls for rebalancing of funding between disciplines and greater support for small, specialist institutions
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How student debt shapes family life
Caitlin Zaloom considers how we can prevent escalating fees from tying students to their parents well into adulthood
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How green is my university?
Academia has gone green in a big way in recent years, but some doubt whether it will make much difference to the planet. Nick Mayo speaks to scholars and students to assess the sector’s environmental...
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Interview with Katina Michael
The futurist on her gutsy mum, why technology should liberate not control, and how graduates are turning their backs on Silicon Valley
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Immanuel Wallerstein, 1930-2019
Tributes paid to founder of world-system analysis
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Future gazer: resist research fads and focus on strengths instead
Australian report warns against fetish for interdisciplinarity, citing increasing specialisation of subfields
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UK rival to ERC would be poor substitute, says Oxford v-c
Ministers considering report outlining possibility of setting up domestic alternative post-Brexit