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
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What’s the point of the party conference?
Martin McQuillan takes a whistle-stop tour of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat events
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Academy’s fat cats ‘too smart’ to attack Labour’s £6,000 fees policy
Liam Byrne, the shadow universities minister, also urges the sector to speak out to prevent a ‘disastrous’ exit from the European Union
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Dissemination of dissent: lessons from Iran’s revolution
Iran shaped the career of Annabelle Sreberny, professor of global media and communications at Soas, but doing research there remains difficult