Essays
Translation is a powerful teaching tool
Dale Salwak explains why he focuses on the people carrying out the translation process and their effects on the text we read
Why I should be free to cause offence
Lincoln Allison argues that it is becoming harder for academics to share controversial ideas
Let’s make higher education an election issue
In the workplace and at the ballot box, it is time to reject stale ideology, says Thomas Docherty
Hannah Arendt: thinking versus evil
Jon Nixon asks what Arendt’s work can tell us about the value of universities as places of thinking together
Out of office: on research leave in Florence
Poring over manuscripts in the Biblioteca Nazionale prompts Nicholas Till to consider the benefits of studying original documents in a digital age
The rise of the medical humanities
Belinda Jack examines the growing field and considers the therapeutic effects of poetry
Thomas Docherty on academic freedom
Managerial fundamentalism has taken hold in universities, with scholars viewed as resources that must be controlled, argues the Warwick scholar
Intellectual cowardice
Scholarship can be a fearsome activity, as Chris Walsh discovered when he set out to investigate the figure of the coward
Benefits culture: rethinking Mozart on Maggie’s dole
Nicholas Till acknowledges his debt to Margaret Thatcher and explains why he regrets his Cambridge degree
Today’s intellectuals: too obedient?
Fred Inglis on the obligation of academics to speak truth to power
Work less, do more, live better
Reconsider long working hours, says Patience Schell, for leisure is vital for mind, body and productivity
Fred Inglis on Richard Hoggart
A leading light in the study of culture fought many battles that now need to be fought again
Whose side are we on in this moral contest?
Universities should not acquiesce in a system that perpetuates inequality - they must take a stand against it, argues Thomas Docherty
The myth of the strong leader
Archie Brown on lessons for universities from political leadership
Turbocharge teaching with a team of rivals
Courses led by interdisciplinary groups can energise teachers and students, says Robert Zaretsky
Why do some academics feel like frauds?
Ruth Barcan believes such feelings are a logical response to a broken academic system
Beware ‘brain-based learning’
Enthusiasm for ‘neuroeducation’ risks blinding people to its potentially limited efficacy, argues Steven Rose
Belinda Jack on cliché, the nemesis of thought
Academics must counter ‘verbicide’, which constrains expression, to foster new ideas and ways of seeing
Still relevant: The Making of the English Working Class
Robert Colls on why E. P. Thompson’s landmark book belongs on more university reading lists
Tom Palaima on the power of mentors
A mentor provides far more than inspiration and sage advice, says Tom Palaima, who fears for the future of such guiding relationships in the era of Moocs
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