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Education

March 1987 Issue

Hilary Mantel

Conjuring Tricks

Zeno Was Here

By Jan Mark

July 1998 Issue

Anne Applebaum

When Kicking a Dead Dog Can Upset the Applecart

Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse Of Science

By Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont

Laurence Brockliss

Higher Purposes

Speaking of Universities

By Stefan Collini

December 2016 Issue

Valerie Grove

Weathering the Dorm

Terms and Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979

By Ysenda Maxtone Graham

September 1983 Issue

Isabel Colegate

Cloistered Love

M R James: An Informal Portrait

By Michael Cox

December 1979 Issue

Julian Rathbone

Gradgrind – Alive and Well?

Simon Heffer

Shelf Help

January 1985 Issue

Christopher Hitchens

Mother of Unions

The Oxford Union: Playground of Power

By David Walter

July 2015 Issue

Paul Lay

A Plea for Polyglots

April 2003 Issue

Michael Burleigh

What A State To Be In

August 2006 Issue

Dan Jones

Six of the Best

Medieval Schools: Roman Britain to Renaissance England

By Nicholas Orme

August 2008 Issue

Simon Heffer

Serious Money

What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism

By Philip Delves Broughton

September 2008 Issue

John Cornwell

Plastic Fantastic

The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

By Norman Doidge

Michael Waterhouse

Rule Britannia

William Camden: A Life in Context

By Wyman H Herendeen

April 2006 Issue

Michael Burleigh

No Pointy-Heads Here?

Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain

By Stefan Collini