Consumption and Its Consequences
Hedonism and selfish materialism are noticeably absent from the shopping list, says Eric J. Arnould
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The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
Egalitarianism is hard to find if you pass over anthropology for archaeology, argues Chris Knight
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The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812
Many Britons may not be aware that the bicentennial of the War of 1812 will commence in June. Before anyone thinks of Napoleon's ill-fated Russian campaign, the War of 1812 referred to here was a...
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A House Divided: American Art since 1955
How do artists go public? How is their work critically received? And how might they contribute to its reception, from writing public statements to publishing private memoirs, staging publicity...
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Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and its Consequences
Sergio Sismondo on Big Pharma's use of its political muscle to avoid regulation in the US
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The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads
This delightful, literally lightweight book takes you on a brief journey from Brindisi in the heel of Italy's boot to Rome; but what an engaging journey! Robert Kaster and his wife travelled the...
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English Nationalism and Euroscepticism: Losing the Peace
Englishness has long been a puzzle both to philosophers and to historians. As long ago as 1741, David Hume declared: "The English, of any people in the universe, have the least of a national...
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The kindness of strangers
External examiners' anachronistic power over the PhD process can be painfully counter-productive. Chris Hackley calls for a more constructive, European-style approach - and for judgement moderated...
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Goodbye, custard powder
Our Deputy Head of Brand Management, Georgina Edsel, has warmly welcomed an analysis by Patrick Freeland-Small, the chief marketing officer at the University of Melbourne, that argues that...
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European model seems unsustainable
Roger Walters is correct in stating that The Open University's council has initiated a full consultation exercise on the proposal to cease direct employment of its staff based in continental Europe...
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Facts better than forecasts
I write regarding your news article "Elite institutions predicted to fall short on research student qualifications" (17 May), which draws on data from the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England...
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Quality, not quantity
Under the headline "Three times the cost but same timetable" (News, 17 May), 糖心Vlog analyses the recent 糖心Vlog Policy Institute report The Academic Experience of Students at...
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System failure
I recently spent the best part of a Sunday afternoon trying to help my daughter complete the student loan application for entry in September.The Student Loans Company website prompts students to use...
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Tolerance a two-way street
I cannot tell from Maleiha Malik's review of Martha Nussbaum's The New Religious Intolerance to what extent this may be true of the book, but the critique is deeply flawed ("Signposts to a brave new...
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Free time (1 of 2)
It is by no means only outside the academy that "Free-range thinkers" (3 May) plough their non-conventional furrows; and it is arguably essential for Foucauldian "fearless speech" to survive and...