The Canon: Ordinary Vices
In her landmark 1984 work, Ordinary Vices, political theorist Judith Shklar argues that in contrast to other liberal conceptions the "liberalism of fear" refers only to one summum malum, cruelty (and...
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Author profile: Farzana Shaikh discusses her latest book - Making Sense of Pakistan
Farzana Shaikh's identity leads to some distrust of her work on Pakistan. Unfazed, she tells Melanie Newman she expects more criticism for her exploration of the country's identity crisis
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The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade
A focus on Pasolini's conflicted gay identity offers new insights, says John David Rhodes
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Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair
This is a lively and stimulating history of electoral campaigning, spanning three centuries from the era before Parliamentary reform of the franchise to the present. Despite the enormous changes in...
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Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914-1918
The First World War gave war a bad name and, as the rather chilling title of this book forewarns, Leo van Bergen is keen to tell us why in grisly detail. No doubt a stroll around the battlefields of...
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'Alpha-rated' but no cash - how crushing
Martin Willis spotlights the dispiriting process of waiting to hear from funding bodies about unsuccessful bids, and highlights the lack of feedback from most of these bodies, in particular the...
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New tricks 1
I did not recognise the teaching accreditation "modulettes" that Thomas Docherty describes ("To provide teaching quality, we must get back to our roots", 9 July).Far from "demanding allegiance" to...
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New tricks 2
Kevin Sharpe's concern that academics are being forced to provide students with a diet of trite soundbite-style lectures is one that I have often heard and is a view with which I sympathise ("Teach...
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New tricks 3
Gordon Brown promises up to 10,000 extra university places to meet demand fuelled by recession and rising unemployment. Will this expansion be met by additional permanent posts for academic staff, or...
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Sound treatment 1
If you ask people what makes a good doctor, they will say good communication skills, empathy and trustworthiness. In the UK, such trust is earned by the display of values and attributes exemplified...
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Sound treatment 2
Your report featuring my views on the fitness-to-practise model outlined in the Academic Journal of Medicine contained some inaccuracies. While I agree with some initial points about "professionalism...
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Truly know thyself
I'm not sure what George Watson was trying to say about the study of English literature - something about it being a vehicle for self-knowledge ("The war of the canon", 16 July).By all means promote...
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Noise pollution
Sorry to poop Paul Chapman's paramotoring party, but it takes the biscuit for selfishness ("Off-piste", 16 July). He cannot have spared a thought for those beneath him, including many seeking quiet...
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Rules of engagement
Echoing The Poppletonian (9 July), the first rule of sandpit is communicate; the second rule is re-read the first rule. As a veteran of four sandpits, this communication can vary from competitive...
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Still hopeful
At the risk of resembling the sad man in William Congreve's The Way of the World who leaves messages for himself at the coffee house, I'd like to point out that my gloomy response to Ron Barnett's...