US still sets pace despite its state flagships falling behind
Private universities will keep US system ahead of Asia for decades yet, conference hears
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Sweden drops language of competition
Robert Appelbaum on the war of words that preceded the withdrawal of plans to privatise universities
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Quality standards can suffer in overseas export
Examining collaborative provision in an Asian partnership left John Buglear doubting the fitness of such ventures
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Debt contagion
Kevin Fong worries as UK medical graduates catch an American disease
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Review: The Counsellor
Our complicity as onlookers sharpens Cormac McCarthy’s bleak morality tale, Duncan Wu finds
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?, by David Edmonds
Martin Cohen on a history of moral philosophy interwoven with proponents’ biographical details
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A Treatise on Modern Architecture in Five Books, by George Saumarez Smith
James Stevens Curl on the importance of hand-drawing skills and appropriate use of classical language in designing modern buildings
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Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media, by Suzanne Franks
Sally Feldman on an alternative interpretation of the media reporting and government responses to the Ethiopian famine in 1984
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Floating City: Hustlers, Strivers, Dealers, Call Girls and Other Lives in Illicit New York, by Sudhir Venkatesh
Dick Hobbs finds low-life tales of illegal entrepreneurs in abundance, but not so scholarly rigour
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Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History, by Catherine Merridale
Lara Cook on how different leaders have made and remade the Kremlin
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Richard Wagner: A Life in Music, by Martin Geck
Barbara Eichner on a different kind of biography
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Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, by Christina B. Hanhardt
Marian Duggan takes a tour of the US LGBT liberation movement
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Paul Benneworth, Laurence Coupe, Sara Read, R. C. Richardson and Dek Woolfson...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Kant buy me love
One of our leading under-threat-of-redundancy philosophers, Dr D. W. Dingbat, has responded forcefully to the contention – first promoted by Norman Swartz, professor emeritus at Simon Fraser...
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LSE urged to act over Peking critic’s expulsion
UCU protests over sacking of free speech champion