The ethical economist
Andrew Robinson and Michael Prest profile Amartya Sen, the economist whose concern for justice stands out in a profession often obsessed with efficiency. With nearly 20 books, innumerable public...
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Emperor to caliph
Byzantium East, Latin West - Imperial Legacy - Suleyman the Magnificent and his Age - The Reluctant Emperor - Byzantium, The Decline and Fall - Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081...
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Picking up the peaces
Michael Prest listens to frustrated UN general-secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali give Oxford's Cyril Foster lecture. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Egyptian secretary-general of the United Nations, is a...
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Less than Olympian Greeks
The Greek World - Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology - The Greeks
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Accessible routes to awareness
A Concise History of Buddhism - The Wisdom of Buddha - Passionate Enlightenment
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Tiger burning bright
Now that the dust has settled on the Malaysian general election it is possible to take stock of how the country is faring in its race to join that highly successful group known as the tigers of the...
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Rankings and the developing world
As you might expect, universities in developing East Asian nations have limited expectations of joining the world rankings high table alongside the likes of Harvard University, the University of...
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God's timely revenge
The discovery of my own weakness was the first symptom of taste" - Edward Gibbon's words must spring to mind when anyone is courageous enough to speak about the relationship of the universal and the...
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Vive la difference
John Gray argues for new ways of political thinking that address the deep cultural diversity of the age and replace the bankrupt ideologies, both Left and Right, of the past. The public cultures of...
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Benchmarks for assessment
International collaboration as measured by world rankings is key to Asia¡¯s future, argues Justin Kim. Innovation is a key driver for Asia¡¯s fastest-growing economies and universities are vital...
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The comparable likeness of being
Mental Leaps
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Colonial writers lost in the post
Postcolonial studies is drowning in a tidal wave of jargon, conceptual inanities and political exhibitionism argues Russell Jacoby. Just when poststructuralism, postmodernism and deconstructionism...
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Pukka purveyors of martial arts
The Sepoy and the Raj - Fidelity and Honour - The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947
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Bond break-up clash
Peter McGill reports from Tokyo on the controversial financial operations of Japanese politician Toshio Yamaguchi. Two troubled universities - one in the United States that was never built and...
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Tongue twisting and yod-dropping
The Cambridge History of the English Language