The case for academic Caesars
Steve Fuller on the need for leaders who can make the radical decisions necessary to survive existential threats both internal and external
Search
-
-
The Microbes Fight Back: Antibiotic Resistance, by Laura Bowater
Only diligence and vigilance can keep us ahead of microorganisms that make us ill, Helen Bynum says
-
Deep Life: The Hunt for the Hidden Biology of Earth, Mars, and Beyond, by Tullis C. Onstott
A subterranaut burrows beneath ice and sand in search of hidden depths, writes Lewis Dartnell
-
New and noteworthy – 26 January 2017
Guide for a scientific career, suitable for ages 8 and up; the cultural temperature of ‘climate’; on why gender inequality is still with us; and the Russian Revolution from below
-
How likely are academics to confess to errors in research?
Holly Else explores the emotional, reputational and practical barriers to correcting mistakes
-
Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa’s Most Repressive State, by Martin Plaut
A study of the North African country lays bare a ruler at war with his own people, says Joanna Lewis
-
Stories without Borders: The Berlin Wall and the Making of a Global Iconic Event, by Julia Sonnevend
Ulrike Zitzlsperger on how international media coverage of the end of a physical divide shaped the narrative and the meaning of the event
-
Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors during Britain’s Financial Revolution, 1690-1750, by Amy M. Froide
Far from passive responders to capitalism, women were involved from the start, Victoria Bateman says
-
What are you reading? – 26 January 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
-
The week in higher education – 26 January 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
-
No heroes and villains in academic publishing
Jeffrey Beall’s blacklist of predatory publishers has disappeared, and so too should ideas about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ journals, argues Martin Parker
-
How can the academy ease the barriers Muslim scholars face?
Nadya Ali outlines the problems that impose three demands on the sector
-
Is research in some countries more altruistically motivated than in others?
When it comes to big countries, more individualistic nations are more altruistic
-
Universities under the reign of Caesar
As the US wrestles with a strongman premier, could more authoritarian leadership help universities battered by funding woes and disciplinary tyranny?
-
World in brief – 26 January 2017
Higher education news from around the globe