The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality), by Errol Morris A one-sided account of a conflict between an eminent professor and an Oscar-winning film-maker is both upbeat and challenging, finds Howard Segal By Howard Segal 5 July
American Academic Cultures: A History of Higher Education, by Paul H. Mattingly The US university system has a complex and often misunderstood past, says Howard P. Segal By Howard Segal 14 December
A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education, by David F. Labaree Book of the week: Howard Segal on an ¡®appreciation¡¯ of an unwieldy creature that is the envy of the world By Howard Segal 25 May
You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future, by Jonathon Keats Howard Segal on an optimistic visionary who never quite achieved the utopian communities he envisioned By Howard Segal 4 August
A tale of two campuses: US public universities recruiting more out-of-state students There have been radically different responses to Massachusetts¡¯ and Maine¡¯s attempts to bring in students from further afield, explains Howard Segal By Howard Segal 22 June
The Wrong Hands: Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges to a Democratic Society, by Ann Larabee Howard P. Segal on a brilliant study exploring the conflict between free speech and instruction guides that may be used for violence By Howard Segal 5 November
Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten, by?Kate Brown Howard Segal admires the travelogue of a self-confessed ¡®professional disaster tourist¡¯ covering a variety of global wastelands By Howard Segal 3 September
Celebrity speakers: putting money where their mouths are In the US, the cost of paying for expensive commencement speeches is diverting funds from where they¡¯re most needed, says Howard Segal By Howard Segal 23 July
