Academia

Perishing Publishers

As publishers charge more for journals, academics are beginning to feel short-changed.

Mighty Kleist

‘German intellectuals are fascinated by outsiders, especially tortured rebels like Heinrich von Kleist’

Universities Must Be Freed from Meddling

Britain’s seats of learning are coping with the new funding regime but are threatened by philistine regulators

Don’t Mention the War

Book review of The Wartime Journals by Hugh Trevor-Roper; edited by Richard Davenport-Hines

It Was All Rot About All Souls

Book review of All Souls and the Wider World edited by S.J.D. Green and Peregrine Horden

Underrated: John Donne

The 17th-century Dean celebrated prosperity as well as poetry and felt no need to transform the Church into an agency of social work

Underrated: Gillian Rose

Daniel Johnson compares two sisters, one a vociferous campaigner against Israel, the other a towering figure in Judaeo-Christian thought

Nil Desperandum

The commonly held assumption that Latin and Greek are "elitist" subjects is both fallacious and damaging

University Challenged

Ludicrous red-tape is stifling innovation and inspiration in Universities. Administrators must step aside

The Kids are Not All Right and I Am Angry

Thrown out of her school after addressing the Conservative Party conference, this teacher explains her change of mind

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"