Giant’s Causeway inspires building at University College Dublin
Landmark architectural project for campus will echo one of Ireland’s most striking natural phenomena
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The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis, by Martha C. Nussbaum
Book of the week: Not trusting fellow citizens to vote erodes the foundation of polity, writes John Shand
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Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales, by Jill Francis
Guilt grew as green spaces became pleasurable more than productive places, says Lisa Hopkins
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Interview with John Hennessy
The computer scientist on the future of online education, seeing early demonstrations of Google, and why he wished he had cloned himself
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Geoff Whitty, 1946-2018
Tributes paid to former Institute of Education director
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Minority scientists to mentor senior professors in equality drive
‘People who have been around at a university for a while assume they know everything…but actually they need to be educated themselves,’ says project leader
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Under Imran Khan, has Pakistani higher education’s time come?
Scholars broadly welcome new government’s pledges but say sector reform will be challenging
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A history that puts the environment on the agenda
Academic Jack Davis tells John Morgan of his surprise at learning that his history of the Gulf of Mexico had won a Pulitzer prize and his hope that it will help to deliver a pro-environmental message
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Jesus as Philosopher: The Moral Sage in the Synoptic Gospels, by Runar M. Thorsteinsson
The differences between Jesus and philosophers cannot be ignored, writes Robert Segal
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The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide, by Michael E. Hobart
An original book about the changes to arts and technology reaches a disappointing conclusion, finds Scott Mandelbrote
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What are you reading? – 9 August 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Academic institutions need leaders with the pack
University managers can learn from Geraint Thomas’ example that success can be won without having to be domineering and overbearing
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New and noteworthy – 9 August 2018
A Stoic history; influencers and other stars of the web; an English revolutionary; and chapter and verse on the books-artist nexus
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What is it like to take a leadership role at a university?
Senior management has its perks but it also comes with a host of new practical, philosophical, psychological and even physical challenges. Here, seven people who have lived through that fiery baptism...