How teaching has fallen for a big con
THE DEBATE about the relative merits of teaching and research in higher education and how to reward excellent performance is similar to the way people respond to the imaginary incentives they are...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from an author who was given a year to live in 1959 but did not die until 34 years...
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All that glisters...
Money
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The Moor's perpetual sigh
Enigmas and Arrivals - Extravagant Strangers
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Speaking Volumes: Gerd Buchdahl's Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science
On Gerd Buchdahl's Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science. When I left Oxford in 1979 and made the short trip east to Cambridge I carried with me a distinctive philosophical baggage: skills in...
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Making the Orient scrutable
Oriental Enlightenment
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Academic plenty in an era of want
Consumption in the Age of Affluence - Tough Choices - Population and Food
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A light rein on the strange land
Strange Country
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Feeling the void within
Writing the Irish Famine
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Take a ticket to central status
Conductors of Chaos
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They came from far away
Changing Differences
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Art's tenebrous twin
A Short History of the Shadow
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Elevation to status symbol
Rise of the New York Skyscraper 1865-1913
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A frenzy of white torsos in a Catholic excess
Discovering the Italian Baroque
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The bellyaches of an architect
Iconography and Electronics