Sexual misconduct in academia: reassessing the past
The #MeToo movement has cast historical behaviour and curricula in a new, shadowy light. Four writers give us their perspectives
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Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering: What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All, by Scott Samuelson
Book of the week: life is full of inescapable sorrows; dealing with them takes grace and grit, K. E. Gover learns
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The academic who hopped a freight train to live and learn with drifters
For insight into the ‘pervasive dislocation’ of people’s lives today, the sociologist Jeff Ferrell rode the rails across the US. He tells Matthew Reisz about life on the road and the limits of...
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Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations, by Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Depictions of sick human bodies were valuable in advancing medical knowledge, says Helen Bynum
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Science not Silence: Voices from the March for Science Movement, edited by Stephanie Fine Sasse and Lucky Tran
Richard Joyner on a heartening collection of accounts by more than 40 people who participated in worldwide demonstrations for science
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What are you reading? – 17 May 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism, by Tim Rogan
A trio of dissenting voices echo through history in this timely, vivid book, writes Fred Inglis
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Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the end of the Establishment, by Aeron Davis
A transparent account of elites’ views makes compelling – and depressing – reading, finds Heather Savigny
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New and noteworthy – 17 May 2018
A critique of the political class; overcoming groupthink; the father of fractal geometry; the golden age of American teen car culture and a theory of cultural evolutionary psychology
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Thailand’s universities suffering from ‘complacency’
Education minister says top-down reforms are needed to ensure better regulation of standards
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Laurie Taylor – 17 May 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Thomas Brazil, 1952-2018
Tributes paid to electrical engineer who helped forge today’s science of mobile communications
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Erasing a disgraced scholar’s output is impractical
While it is important to reassess behaviour and power dynamics through a post-Weinstein lens, it is harder to make the case for deleting work from the academic record
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Discrimination row university secures equality accreditation
NUI Galway’s Athena SWAN award recognises ‘energetic and sustained’ efforts to improve