Manifesto for Marx 2
Alison Wolf's view of Marx's faded relevance is too narrow. My English literature students are interested in Marxism not because they find it a political gospel, but because it offers a bolder...
Alison Wolf's view of Marx's faded relevance is too narrow. My English literature students are interested in Marxism not because they find it a political gospel, but because it offers a bolder...
In her article Alison Wolf equated "Marx" with "Marxism". How can someone of her standing make such a basic error? One answer would be that she has an agenda that aims to discredit critical theories...
I refuse to apologise to Tariq Modood or Sara Wajid ("Secular, liberal and doggedly fundamentalist", March 17) for Western universities being cathedrals of secular liberalism. If this offends Muslim...
Has multiculturalism become a topic on which most sociologists need to express their views anonymously? You published the views of six sociologists on whether multiculturalism is under threat in the...
That Piero Tosi, the president of the Italian Rectors' Conference, has been suspended for allegedly favouring his son's appointment to a university hospital ("Siena imbroglio", March 10) will...
The article comparing employers' and unions' claims ("Round one: employers and unions square up", March 17) clearly illustrates the different approaches taken by the two sides to the use of data. The...
There is no more certain way to exacerbate the higher education pay dispute than for a few vice-chancellors to interfere in what is a UK-wide multi-union action. If they dock the pay of academics...
No, Richard Austen-Baker (Letters, March 17) may not point out that the adoption of "look and say", "real books" and "positive marking" in British schools has "had a disastrous effect on pupils'...
I read with some concern Tom Palaima's review of Odysseus Unbound by Robert Bittlestone, James Diggle and John Underhill (March 10). The authors' hypothesis is that Paliki, the western peninsula of...
The author of the book 1,000 Doctors (and Many More) Against Vivisection , is Hans Ruesch and not Hand Ruech as stated in Dennis Stuart's letter on March 10.

Anthony Freeman meets Daniel Dennett, who wants religious leaders to examine and disclose the evidence for the teachings of their faiths From the dawn of civilisation, religion stood centre stage in...
We enjoy limitless freedom of choice in the West, right? Wrong, says Slavoj Zizek, who takes a sideways glance at the 'truths' we hold dear In the 1960s and 1970s, it was possible to buy soft-porn...
When Julia Kristeva's father died, she turned to crime writing. Sara Wajid interrogates her motives and uncovers her belief in inquiry in the face of religious extremism What a gaffe. People cried...
Universities welcome the growing influx of students from the European accession countries. They swell the coffers and enrich campus culture, reports Harriet Swain As part of its student recruitment...