An ambition harpooned
Herman Melville
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A loosed tide
W. B. Yeats
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Greenblatt: Act 2, Scene 1
Stephen Greenblatt is an exponent of new historicism, a rather trendy theory that has divided academics. Now he has been asked by publisher Norton to help edit its Shakespeare. Jennifer Wallace talks...
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Aunt Deirdre says 'Economists, get out of the sandpit.' Now!
Deirdre McCloskey changed gender a few years ago. She was professor of economics at the University of Iowa at the time and known as Donald McCloskey. She argues that economics must reject the three...
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Flag of convenience
Labour and the Conservatives both claim to stand for national pride. Harriet Swain hears from a historian who is unconvinced A recent party political broadcast by the Conservative party featured a...
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Digging for victory
Donald Johanson, the flamboyant fossil-hunter who shot to fame after his discovery of a three million-year-old skeleton in 1974, tells Lucy Hodges about his plans to excavate in Eritrea Why does...
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The tanks that think
Simon Midgley takes the lid off the Fabian Society in the latest in our series on intelligence units The Fabian Society, which is affiliated to the Labour party, is the oldest socialist society in...
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Creche barriers
A lack of childcare can limit choice for staff and students. Katrina Wishart looks at whether things have improved sinceour last survey almost a decade ago The campaign to create a nursery for...
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Madness in the method
It is not scientific inquiry that produces anti-science feeling but distorted ideas of what it means to be 'scientific', argues Mary Midgley Particular myths that have come down to us from the...
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Sights of special scientific interest
Scientists talk about objects in the natural world that have most touched them in a new series of Seven Wonders of the World, the BBC's bid to challenge popular misconceptions about science and...
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Correction
Last week's article "Bullies in the common room" (page 6) said that staff at Staffordshire University had been surveyed and bullying found. In fact the survey asked part-time students about bullying...
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Hug of love
(Photograph) - Hug of love: student clutches a sculpture from Wimbledon School of Art, which is exhibiting work from the first five-years of its technical arts degree course at the Lyttelton, London...
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Fact file
Of first-degree new entrants, 93.1 per cent were studying on a full-time or sandwich basis. 51.2 per cent of first-degree new entrants were female. 44.8 per cent of students aged under 21 were living...
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What war can be good for
Next week the funding debate is set to dominate the 75th conference of the National Union of Students. Harriet Swain looks at the battles fought on floor and platform The year is 1968: the National...
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Scotland's boost for Labour
Opposition to the Labour leadership of the National Union of Students Scotland proved ineffectual at its conference last week. Student associations at Perth College, Glasgow Caledonian and Paisley...