Don's Diary
Sunday In East Berlin - yes, it still exists 11 years after the fall of the wall - the clocks really do tick differently. We are sitting at a café near our flat in Prenzlauer Berg, the Primrose Hill...
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Elite come before equality
Despite its 'openness', the best French higher education is tailored for the middle classes, Ruth Morse writes. The French higher education system has never been entirely free and open but it has...
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Eyewitness: California boosts diversity
Starting this month, students with top academic credentials seeking to enter the University of California will no longer be guaranteed places. In the boldest attempt yet by a US institution to...
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Universities drowning under dual tidal waves
If the treasury keeps making academic judgements, it may have no universities left. I will not say that relations between universities and the state have never been as bad as they are in this country...
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No icon, just the words talking
Sylvia Plath
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How Napoleon went to 'take an idea for a walk' and conquered Europe
Napoleon the Novelist
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Where a single girl can meet a guerrilla
A survey of the internet's effect on societycovers lots of ground but leaves some holes, Richard Clayton writes. Manuel Castells is a sociology professor based in Berkeley, California, whose trilogy...
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'Fly' fishing in the shallows of cultural channels
Fourth Door Review
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One to read on the train
World Transport Policy and Practice
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Tackling scientific taboos
Consciousness and Emotion
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Breathing life into cult of the dead
Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt - Akhenaten - Cleopatra of Egypt
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Clicked on to the code
LMS Journal of Computation & Mathematics
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Landscapes to colonise
The Artificial Empire
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Metamorphosis in a vibrant republic
Art in France 1900-1940 - Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France