All bark, no bite?
The recent Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ draft guidance Alternative Providers: Specific Course Designation states on page 9: “The QAA safeguards academic standards and quality in UK...
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Limited choice
Steve West’s contention that students need wide-ranging information to make their choice of university and course would be welcome if he were not simultaneously undermining it (“Working class law...
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Advance warning
Pauline McGovern makes a good point about vivas (“Harsh interrogation”, Letters, 2 May). Their main purpose is to establish that candidates understand their work and can explain it in the context of...
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Rearing window
In his review of Peter Mandler’s Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War, Chris Knight characterises as “nonsense” Mead’s belief that the swaddling...
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Ellen Gallagher: Freud meets his interlocutor on a black planet
Tate Modern exhibition AxMe shows African American artist talking back to race and gender history
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Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty
Philip Kemp on how the American film industry reacted variously to the rise of fascism in Germany
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Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty by Lucien Jaume, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Biancamaria Fontana on the influences that shaped a French aristocrat’s ambiguous view of democracy from his studies of the American model
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Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity by Daniel Stolzenberg
James Stevens Curl on a summary of Kircher’s hieroglyphic studies in the context of 17th-century scholarship on paganism and oriental languages
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The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time by Lance Grande
Euan Clarkson is inspired by a detailed history and guide to the richest cluster of fossilised remains
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German Europe by Ulrich Beck, translated by Rodney Livingstone
Roger Morgan on Germany’s economic domination of the European Union and the need for a sociological approach to redress the balance
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On Love: A Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century by Luc Ferry, translated by Andrew Brown
Luc Ferry, the French political philosopher and minister of education under Jacques Chirac, here proclaims “the revolution of love” and “the re- enchantment of the world”. This is not a replay of the...
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German Europe by Ulrich Beck, translated by Rodney Livingstone
Ulrich Beck, a sociologist, begins this book with Thomas Mann’s well-known injunction to a student audience in Hamburg in 1953 to strive for “not a German Europe, but a European Germany”. One measure...
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Bones with plenty of meat
Euan Clarkson is inspired by a detailed history and guide to a rich cluster of fossilised remains
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Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity by Daniel Stolzenberg
The German Jesuit, Athanasius Kircher (1601/2-80), was one of the most prolific authors of the Baroque period. His Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652-54) and celebrated Museum of Antiquities (the justly...