Academia

‘I have finished yet another round of talks at universities. I am both impressed and disheartened’

Jeremy Jennings dissects the work of the fashionable left-wing philosopher, who believes that Lenin, Stalin and Mao were too soft

Roger Kimball finds it strange that the author of the most pertinent works on Marxism is so little known

The proportion of state-school freshers at Oxbridge is unlikely to increase until the schools themselves improve drastically

Surely the man who can claim to be the world’s first experimental scientist and to have advised the Pope deserves a better reputation

Roger Kimball blames the revered advocate of ‘experiments in living’ for our inability to escape from the quagmire of moral nihilism

‘Among Hugh Trevor-Roper’s enthusiasms was a campaign to secure the Nobel Peace Prize for Himmler’s masseur’

The author of a powerful new novel set in a comprehensive school explains why A-level results convey little about a pupil’s education

Kenneth Minogue recalls the great Anglo-Iraqi scholar who was both amused and outraged by the folly of intellectuals

Ibn Warraq indicts the Palestinian author of Orientalism for presenting the West as villains and Muslims as victims