Can Academic History survive, at least in its current form? Or should it? If you ask Joel Kotkin, the answer is a cautious maybe. Kotkin writes in an interesting essay, that: History has moved to the ...

I feel compelled to read about the implosion of academia, having myself quit higher-ed as a profession in favor of more hands-on policy work. Any destruction is morbidly fascinating; self-caused ones, ...

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Getty Images, via Wikimedia Commons. In recent years, as academic history has taken a turn toward the cultural and social, producing more and more ...

This story is part of the July 12 edition of Good Weekend. See all stories. When the Australian Historical Association held its annual gathering at Flinders University in Adelaide last year, the title ...