THE books podcast: Hester Vaizey interview
Download the podcastHester Vaizey, lecturer in modern German history and fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, speaks to Times Higher Education’s books editor, Karen Shook, about Born in the GDR:...
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Inside Out Festival 2014
The thinking person’s festival of culture in the capital offers Londoners a variety of delights and insights into the city around them
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Sir David Bell, Matthew Feldman, Dennis Hayes, Uwe Schütte and Peter J. Smith…
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Writing History in the Global Era, by Lynn Hunt
Is globalisation the next paradigm for a ‘discipline in crisis’? Richard Bosworth reviews the evidence
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The Truth About Art: Reclaiming Quality, by Patrick Doorly
Tracey Warr on a study discussing the role of value judgements
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Moral Conscience Through the Ages: Fifth Century BCE to the Present, by Richard Sorabji
Tom Palaima considers a compact history of the ideas about our inner voice
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Reality Mining: Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World, by Nathan Eagle and Kate Greene
Are our ever more monitored lives becoming safer as a result? John Gilbey sifts the evidence
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Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present, by Michael H. Kater
Roger Morgan on the German city that enjoyed a golden age of culture that it never managed to reclaim
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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker
Rachel Bowlby on a modern style guide that aims to teach good writing in a non-prescriptivist way
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Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics, by Beatriz Preciado
Richard Williams on Hugh Hefner’s attention to the enhancement of pleasure through erotic design
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The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China 1901–1956, by Jan Kiely
Jonathan Mirsky on the attempts to impose thought reform on prisoners in pre-Communist China
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British Culture and the First World War: Experience, Representation and Memory, by Toby Thacker
Angela Smith on stories of the lives of 11 creatives interwoven to give an overview of the Great War from a range of perspectives
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How would you change the National Student Survey?
Ahead of the annual Battle of Ideas Festival, we asked you to tell us what you think is missing from the country-wide canvassing of university student views
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‘Simplistic’ redundancy metrics criticised
Warwick staff concerned about ‘single cash metric’ used to identify redundancies in life sciences
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Hong Kong’s students ask: if not now, when?
The territory’s young people have bravely asked the question that its universities have ducked, observes Bruce Macfarlane