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-...
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Minority matters
Your selection of The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions and Meritocracy at Elite Universities by Natasha Warikoo as the book of the week (Books, 27 October) and the reporting...
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Limits of the TEF
Your article rightly notes that the results of the UK Engagement Survey could have implications for the proposed teaching excellence framework, although it doesn’t explicitly state that the survey...
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Trumping populism: the worst has happened. What now?
As scholars in the UK and US mull the future after Trump’s triumph and Brexit, academics must focus on making society’s walls fall