Laurie Taylor – 17 November 2016
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China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay, by Minxin Pei
Jonathan Mirsky on a bleak but believable view of rampant corruption taking a country to the dogs
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What are you reading? – 17 November 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The BBC: The Myth of a Public Service, by Tom Mills
Has the corporation acted as an arm of the state in the past, and might it in the future? Ivor Gaber wonders
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Searching for Lord Haw-Haw: The Political Lives of William Joyce, by Colin Holmes
A.W. Purdue on the man whose narcissism led to his becoming a mouthpiece for the Nazis
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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer, by Richard Holmes
Duncan Wu on the art of biography
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New and noteworthy – 17 November 2016
The latest recommended reading takes in a Marxist view of the history of the US academy, Norse sagas (walrus penis bone, check), leisure time inequality, and American army victors and their spoils
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Grant winners – 17 November 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Trump agenda must not endanger what makes US HE strong
The government’s partnership with universities has been good for all; Anthony Monaco hopes the new administration will strengthen it
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Will Trump make US HE great again? Not likely
Philip G. Altbach and Hans de Wit foresee a bleak future for America’s global excellence and competitiveness
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Do we really need laws on toilet access?
Who can enter whose washrooms in US public universities should be a matter for kindness and common sense, not ideology, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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The precarious professorial life
During four decades of attacks on tenure and shared governance in universities, the one thing that academics have historically been permitted to retain is a system of academic esteem bestowed by...
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Unusual advantages
“Myths about the impact of having a surname starting with a letter late in the alphabet have been debunked by a new analysis,” according to the article on Tolga Yuret’s study in Scientometrics (“End-...