Academia

Rhodes still stands

Blaming the British Empire for Brexit is not only ignorant — it’s total rubbish

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The new network for gender-critical academics

Welcome news for radical feminists and supporters of free speech

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How imaginative should historians be?

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about archival research and the importance of source material

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David Miller may be a loon, but sacking him would open a Pandora’s Box

Toby Young disagrees with Danny Finkelstein’s call for Miller’s sacking, saying that academic staff should be free to express whatever views they like within the law

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Public Enemy Number whatever

Frederic Raphael defends his friend, the writer Joseph Epstein, latest victim of America’s cancel culture for daring to mock Jill Biden’s doctorate

Features
Is Leicester’s decision to scrap medieval literature the end for serious literary study?

What is being proposed by the university represents the closing down of intellectual horizons and the deliberate vandalism of a highly respected English department

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History wars roll on

In Britain, contentious historical issues receive attention to an unprecedented degree

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Medusa and toxic femininity

In reply to A Classicist’s response to ‘The Mirror of #MeToo’

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Looking back at Medusa

Myths are more malleable than statues

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A series of unfortunate cancellations

Has the vanguard of wokeism taken over the realm of academic publishing?

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