NOBILITY OF SPIRIT: A FORGOTTEN IDEAL?
New website launch Winter 2009
Sarah Churchwell on the language of anti-liberalism
Dispatches from the Crimea and Mauritania
Comment by Peter Tatchell, Simon Kovar & Guy Dammann
Esther Freud’s Dinner for Six
John Lennard welcomes a Golden Age of the verse-novel
Contemporary Iranian photography: a retrospective
Fiona Sampson on the lyric of madness
New poetry by Jorie Graham and George Szirtes
A Fortunate Life by Paddy Ashdown
Review by Simon Kovar
It is hard in reading these pages to avoid pondering what Britain missed in never giving Ashdown the opportunity to serve as Prime Minister. [more]
The New Acropolis
By Constantine Sandis
Whatever the historical and counterfactual details may be, the time is now ripe for all surviving Parthenon sculptures to be reunited under one roof. [more]
A Liberal Defence
of Money
By Will Davies
If a zero price really is “the future of business”, then now might be the time to appreciate what is culturally and ethically important about money. [more]
Amol Rajan
Braving the Limelight
It is a curious fact that British law is presently designed to criminalise the diligence and dedication of those individuals who most obviously wish to work in its economy.
Louise Whiteley
The Cognitive Olympics
The danger of cognitive enhancers is that they encourage a yearning for academic gold, whilst downplaying the value of ‘training’ and its lasting effects. [more]
Godless: The Church of Liberalism
Book review by
Christopher Hitchens
I have the distinct feeling that people do not buy Coulter's creed-screeds and speed-reads in order to enhance their knowledge of history or their command of syllogism. [more]
On Myth
By Marina Warner
The word ‘myth’ is usually used to evoke a dead religion (the Greeks’ Olympians, the Norse pantheon) but it is also applied rather heedlessly to the sacred stories of peoples who are still unconsciously counted as primitive, and unadulteratedly ancient. [more]
Not a gentle kind
of Zen
By Ed Smith
I had approached Zidane with some trepidation, as I didn’t expect to be much bothered about a real-time replay of the match between Real Madrid and Villarreal on 23rd April 2005. How wrong I was. [more]
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