The Rise and Fall of the British Don

The Rise and Fall of the British Don

Bertrand Russell, the Nobel Prize–winning English philosopher and logician who studied and taught at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. By Tim Bouverie Strange as it may seem in this philistine age, there was a time when academics were regarded as pillars of society. In Britain between the 1940s and the 1980s, university professors, especially those from Oxford and Cambridge, were esteemed not merely for their specialist knowledge or peda…