A history that puts the environment on the agenda
Academic Jack Davis tells John Morgan of his surprise at learning that his history of the Gulf of Mexico had won a Pulitzer prize and his hope that it will help to deliver a pro-environmental message
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Jesus as Philosopher: The Moral Sage in the Synoptic Gospels, by Runar M. Thorsteinsson
The differences between Jesus and philosophers cannot be ignored, writes Robert Segal
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The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide, by Michael E. Hobart
An original book about the changes to arts and technology reaches a disappointing conclusion, finds Scott Mandelbrote
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What are you reading? 鈥 9 August 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Academic institutions need leaders with the pack
University managers can learn from Geraint Thomas鈥 example that success can be won without having to be domineering and overbearing
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New and noteworthy 鈥 9 August 2018
A Stoic history; influencers and other stars of the web; an English revolutionary; and chapter and verse on the books-artist nexus
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What is it like to take a leadership role at a university?
Senior management has its perks but it also comes with a host of new practical, philosophical, psychological and even physical challenges. Here, seven people who have lived through that fiery baptism...
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Letters 鈥 9 August 2018
There is no Confucian conspiracy In his opinion article 鈥淐hinese counterweights鈥 (2 August), Jeffrey Gil discusses the controversies over Confucius Institutes on campuses worldwide. I find it hard to...
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 9 August 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton.聽Finem respice!
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 2 August 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton.聽Finem respice!
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India鈥檚 ever-decreasing circles of eminence
India鈥檚 downsized Institutes of Eminence programme has dashed the hopes of those聽keen to see聽an improvement in higher education quality, says Pushkar
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Scientific collaborators are not disposable
Cutting partner labs out of awarded grant budgets is a common but destructive phenomenon in modern academia, says Anne Carpenter
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Embracing the old-buffer zone
He may once have disdained older scholars, but, having reached seniority in a managerialist age, John Brinnamoor now values their ability to say what others can鈥檛