The fragile generation and the coddling of young minds
Jonathan Haidt tells Matthew Reisz how a moral culture of ‘safetyism’ took root in today’s students, who view the use of any word that can cause offence as an act of violence
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The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece, by Maria Michela Sassi
Elegant theories provide a new narrative about Presocratic philosophers, writes Emma Gee
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Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals, by Christine M. Korsgaard
Kant is ‘animalised’ in this philosophical look at whether non-human animals are part of our larger community, says Paul Waldau
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Books interview: Robert Holland
The author on the journey from historical fiction and 18th-century Gothic Italian fiction in English to exploring how the Mediterranean shaped the British imagination
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The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth, by Christopher Schaberg
Book of the week: Charlie Pullen on what it means to read and teach literature in an era when opinion trumps fact
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Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People, by Amara Thornton
Mass media brought excavators of ancient sites fame and fortune, says Margarita DÃaz-Andreu
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The Third Lens: Metaphor and the Creation of Modern Cell Biology, by Andrew S. Reynolds
Describing the building blocks of life in terms of other structures plays a crucial scientific role, says Jon Turney
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What are you reading? – 6 September 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Train all university staff in suicide prevention, says guidance
Universities UK responds to growing public concern about number of undergraduates taking their own lives
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Top astronomer donates £2.3 milllion prize to young physicists
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s graduate scholarships will help students from under-represented groups
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THE Awards 2018: shortlist announced
List of finalists for the ‘Oscars’ of the higher education sector released
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Students’ unions are invaluable to UK higher education
Students’ unions are rich sources of information and have the capacity to deliver outcomes on issues such as employment and retention, argues Jim DickinsonÂ
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WSJ/THE US College Rankings 2019: Harvard holds on to top spot
MIT and Yale follow close behind in 2019 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education league tableÂ