Academia

Father and son: the Herbert Read I knew

A filial memoir of Britain’s apostle of modernism in art

Zero Sum Game

Is an aptitude for mathematics really an advantage?

Overrated: A C Grayling

The hypocrisy of an academic atheist who chooses to play God

Misfortune Made the Man

The worst episode in Hugh Trevor-Roper’s career made him a better man

The Letters Of Hugh Trevor-Roper

A new collection of the waspish historian's extensive correspondence, introduced by Alasdair Palmer

Feud Of The Cold Warriors

Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher were the best of foes, as David Caute’s compelling presentation of a decades-long intellectual sparring match shows

Uncritical Theorists Who Misread the Nazis

A new volume of reports by the Frankfurt School shows their number to be at best naive and at worst dangerously misinformed

Class Struggle in the Classroom

'In 1990, Hobsbawm embarrassedly asserted that nations are no longer "a feasible project" just when the nations of Eastern Europe, now free from Soviet Tyranny, reasserted themselves'

Pride of the CUP

Cambridge University Press have just published a book by an anti-Zionist, anti-democratic Hegelian elitist. The reason? He has the right enemies

Academic Ideals

Amid the higher costs for university tuition online degree courses are gaining traction. Plato and Cicero would be turning in their grave

Underrated: Abroad

The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”

The king of cakes

"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"