Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, by Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber
When the lending system isn鈥檛 working, interests rate a聽check, advises Howard Davies

When the lending system isn鈥檛 working, interests rate a聽check, advises Howard Davies

Discussion of underground and emergent queer cultures are interesting, but Caroline Osella wishes for more insight from a respected scholar

Mary Evans agrees that feminism today focuses on women鈥檚 agency and identity at the expense of examining framing structures

Eva Shan Chou lauds an original, erudite portrait of a writer whose courage matched her creativity

Gary Day on an exploration of new technologies鈥 effects on artists鈥 representation of the world

Ronald Hutton praises a tour de force on the causes of the English Civil War

Accretion of projects harms the ability of US universities to restrain costs and hit goals, says Dartmouth College president

Private college loses all its previous degree-validating partners

Rama Thirunamachandran moots idea of a loan system 鈥榰nderpinned by the private sector鈥

Prince William has had a busy time recently: high-fiving Tinie Tempah at the Baftas last week, shifting sandbags in a flood-hit Berkshire village and reportedly enjoying a hunting holiday in Spain...

It has bar stools and beer pumps, but the new 鈥減ub鈥 at London South Bank University is not what it seems. In fact it is 鈥渁n elaborate set, built at a cost of 拢20,000 by the psychology department; a...

Philosophers need to follow Socrates鈥 example and get back among the people, say John Kaag and David O鈥橦ara

Courses led by interdisciplinary groups can energise teachers and students, says Robert Zaretsky

Michael Gove has vetoed plans for a free school sponsored by the Institute of Education, as the proposal failed to reach the government鈥檚 鈥渉igh bar鈥

The whistleblower Edward Snowden has been elected rector of the University of Glasgow