Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes our Fortunes, by Mark Robert Rank, Thomas A. Hirschl and Kirk A. Foster
Angelia Wilson on a national narrative that distorts reality with its boundless optimism
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Zone of Crisis: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, by Amin Saikal
Farzana Shaikh on a study of a region that lies at the heart of a geopolitical storm
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From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America, by Kimberly A. Hamlin
Ellen Carol DuBois extols a study of a scientific theory’s impact on the pursuit of empowerment
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Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains, by Susan Greenfield
A lack of disciplinary expertise in digital cultures undermines this study, finds Tara Brabazon
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Innovation investment unveiled
The Technology Strategy Board will commit more than £535 million to fund innovation in 2014-15
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‘Shock and derision’ as Kent Anderson named Science publisher
Open letter from researchers decries AAAS journal’s high fees and points to Anderson’s combative views on open access
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University participation rate fell back in 2012-13
Introduction of higher fees led to a bulge in numbers the year before, report says
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The wonder years: a journey to independence
Christopher Bigsby reflects on being a Fresher and the transition from the classroom to campus
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Vanishing points of view
Universities abandoned to untrammelled market forces risk being robbed of their diversity, with unpredictable results
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The systematisation of higher education in the US
Consolidation may bring greater efficiencies but the process is one yielding mixed blessings, writes Howard P. Segal
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Robbins Rebooted: a critique
Byrne wants to replace marketisation with corporatism, argues Emran Mian
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Boxing clever: television as a teaching tool
It’s time for lecturers to hand out viewing lists alongside reading lists, argues Chris Willmott
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State turns to Pearson for help placing for-profit outcasts
Thousands of students may be stranded as colleges lose student loan access
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Sheridan Le Fanu: 200 years of literary blood and terrorism
On the bicentenary of the Irish writer’s birth, Bill McCormack weighs his preoccupation with family, guilt, dualism and the disappeared