How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories, by Alex Rosenberg
Do we learn incorrect and harmful lessons from our hard-wired love of narrative? asks Gail Marshall
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Liberty, Equality & Humbug: Orwell’s Political Ideals, by David Dwan
A useful critical study shows that George Orwell had a capacity for forcefully expressing views that contradict each other, says Andrew Palmer
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Books editor’s blog: it’s your work – find the words that make it sing
Matthew Reisz finds much valuable and practical writing advice in Joe Moran’s book, a ‘style guide by stealth’ and ‘a love letter to the sentence’
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Helmholtz: A Life in Science, by David Cahan
Book of the week: an intellectual superstar’s work merits more space amid the social history, says Richard Joyner
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US midterms: the academics who tried to switch to politics
Donald Trump’s election prompted US scientific leaders to get more of their own into public office. However, as the midterm elections loom, progress on bringing analytical skills into the political...
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Being working class in the academy
While widening access is high on universities’ agendas at undergraduate level, class barriers still prevail in the academy. Here, five working-class scholars describe their experiences of ‘otherness’
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Brits in America: when Harvard visits China
Teaching students in China as part of a Harvard programme inspired Raphaelle to head back to Harvard and take a class in the language
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Central European University moves all new students to Vienna
Liberal institution has been left in legal limbo for 18 months by Viktor Orbán’s government
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Australian minister ‘censored’ humanities research
Political intervention at odds with government’s free speech campaign
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How to deal with inadequate PhD supervision
Vishal Vora won compensation from Soas over a claim for poor support in his doctoral studies. He explains the steps others can take if they have a similar complaint
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World University Rankings 2019 by subject: arts and humanities methodology
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019 arts and humanities subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas. The subjects used to create this ranking are: Art,...
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Time running out for deal on UK-EU research ties post-Brexit
UK universities ‘engaged in intensive planning’ for no-deal Brexit impact across range of activities
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Nobelist: Trump’s climate doubts ‘selling our children’s future’
Frances Arnold says she feels ‘deeply distressed’ by public mistrust of science
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The week in higher education – 25 October 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Early deadline applications to UK universities hit record high
As number of applicants from the EU flatlines, UK and rest of world drives growth