The Invention of God, by Thomas Römer
Scholarship, not ideology, drives this welcome effort to determine what is historical and what is not in the depiction of God, says Robert A. Segal

Scholarship, not ideology, drives this welcome effort to determine what is historical and what is not in the depiction of God, says Robert A. Segal

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The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

Book of the week: Tim Hall on post-Soviet criminal clans, diverse and complex groups to whom lawlessness is anathema

Gordon Brown’s former right-hand man talks to John Morgan about his return to Harvard, Labour’s higher education ‘failure’ and a political comeback

Does the UK’s Prevent strategy go too far in its demands on institutions? A group of experts share their perspectives

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Who loses out when a scholar fails to acknowledge earlier related work? Ron Iphofen on the evergreen virtues of desk research
In a somewhat martyr-like fashion, Stefano Bonino grumbles about the ink he spilled writing an earlier article defending the employment of former police spy Bob Lambert in a university environment (“...
It was heartening to read Lars Fischer’s defence of book reviewing (“Scholarly book reviewing: time for a plot twist”, Opinion, 7 January). This is self-evidently a vital scholarly function that...