Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africaās Most Repressive State, by Martin Plaut
A study of the North African country lays bare a ruler at war with his own people, says Joanna Lewis
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Stories without Borders: The Berlin Wall and the Making of a GlobalĀ Iconic Event, by Julia Sonnevend
Ulrike Zitzlsperger on how international media coverage of the end of a physical divide shaped the narrative and the meaning of the event
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Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors during Britainās Financial Revolution, 1690-1750, by Amy M. Froide
Far from passive responders to capitalism, women were involved from the start, Victoria Bateman says
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What are you reading? ā 26 January 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education ā 26 January 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the worldās media
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No heroes and villains in academic publishing
Jeffrey Beallās blacklist of predatory publishers has disappeared, and so too should ideas about āgoodā and ābadā journals, argues Martin Parker
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How can the academy ease the barriers Muslim scholars face?
Nadya Ali outlines the problems that impose three demands on the sector
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Is research in some countries more altruistically motivated than in others?
When it comes to big countries, more individualistic nations are more altruisticĀ
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Universities under the reign of Caesar
As the US wrestles with a strongman premier, could more authoritarian leadership help universities battered by funding woes and disciplinary tyranny?
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World in brief ā 26 January 2017
Higher education news from around the globe
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Brexit UK: when the present is another country
A scholar of the past returns to a Britain he thought he knew ā and finds himself averting his gaze in despair. Felipe FernĆ”ndez-Armesto mourns
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On freedom, mission and origin stories
The House of Lords is struggling to define what makes a university within the context of the Higher Education and Research Bill (āRefining our termsā, Leader, 19 January). In the US, āthe defining...
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Falling from favour
Re Marguerite Dennisā blog post āDwindling US international student numbers? Donāt blame Trump!ā (19 January, www.timeshighereducation.com). The most significant factor that has caused the US to lose...
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Let's be frank
I never thought Iād be agreeing with him, but when Donald Trump said that āpolitical correctnessā¦has transformed our institutions of higher education from ones that fostered spirited debate to a...