Fixing Drugs: The Politics of Drug Prohibition
David Nutt applauds a well-balanced evaluation of narcotics law, with all its inconsistencies and flaws
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Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation
A grand biological theory for what makes us so special does not convince Steven Rose
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The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
This is a very unexpected book. Brad Gregory's first book, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe, was much admired: a detailed, scholarly work that stayed fairly firmly in...
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The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
After Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion comes the reply. Wham bam! Rupert Sheldrake takes on the "truth-finding religion" of science in general and "ten dogmas" of the 21st-century worldview in...
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Satisfaction and its discontents
The National Student Survey puts pressure on lecturers to provide 'enhanced' experiences. But, argues Frank Furedi, the results do not measure educational quality and the process infantilises...
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Imperial echoes
'Internationalisation' is the trend du jour for universities, but they would do well to consider its earlier manifestation during the British Empire's long 19th century. As Tamson Pietsch explains,...
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Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed
An immigrant artist's wanderlust propelled him to Britain, where his work was compared to Hogarth's, notes Emma Barker
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The Pick - Reconstructing lives
Reconstructing livesNational War Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, 9 March-24 February 2013"We have now four miles of beds - and not eighteen inches apart," Florence Nightingale reported from the...
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Diary
BathThe Compassionate Eye: Birds and Beasts from the American Museum's Print CollectionAlthough he was a doctor, Dallas Pratt (1914-94) was deeply troubled by vivisection and committed to animal...
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That's all, folks!
Our Head of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Professor Gordon Lapping, has reacted angrily to insinuations that the BA course P3197 run by his department is a Mickey Mouse degree.Lapping...
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Private values and for-profit standards (1 of 3)
We at Regent's College were delighted by the breadth and depth of the private sector coverage in last week's 糖心Vlog ("Enigma variations", 1 March). We share the concern that many...
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Private values and for-profit standards (2 of 3)
Recent reports in THE have highlighted concerns about the standards of the private providers designated for student support ("QAA in the dark on 63 of 94 private providers", 23 February; "Enigma...
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Private values and for-profit standards (3 of 3)
Carl Lygo, principal of BPP University College, makes a serious category error in equating for-profit universities (under investigation in the US but promoted by the UK government as a solution to a...
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Two brains, both wrong
David Willetts disagrees with Stefan Collini that the government lacks an understanding of the public value of the university ("A mistaken conception that the university system is under attack", 1...
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Polar apposite
David Willetts' recent trip to the Antarctic Peninsula deserves elaboration ("Journey into the unknown", 1 March). While the minister might have enjoyed glancing at an emperor penguin or two, his...