"But the world of academia, of research, is also part of our general social fabric.
Academia, of course, turned out to be no match for the job offers that came Mr. Moon's way from several Wall Street firms.
A US rabbi has accused British academia of betraying the nation's traditions of free speech by encouraging "no platform" policies for speakers who voice support for Israel.
Within this broad, comic plotting, Lodge wryly explores the differences between the highly professionalised American academia of the time, especially its love affair with literary theory, and the much more pragmatic, not to say amateurish, British tradition.
The article addresses a generational trend in academia of which I am clearly a part, but about which I had thought very little (perhaps because I am apparently so concentrated on my career).
In the era following the human genome project, there has been a resurgence in both industry and academia of the more old fashioned "systems physiology" approach, as people come to realise that genes are not the whole story.
