NOBILITY OF SPIRIT: A FORGOTTEN IDEAL?
Spring 2009 issue: on-sale Thursday 5th March
Sarah Churchwell on the language of anti-liberalism
‘Barack Obama and the Politics of Expectation’
Dispatches from the Crimea and Mauritania
Comment by Peter Tatchell and Guy Dammann
Esther Freud’s Dinner for Six
Contemporary Iranian photography: a retrospective
Fiona Sampson on the lyric of madness
New poetry by Jorie Graham and George Szirtes
The language of anti-liberalism
Review by Sarah Churchwell
Who knew that the Republicans were poststructuralists at heart, and that the real victor of the culture wars would be Derrida? [more]
Jinnah’s Tragedy
By Simon Kovar
Jinnah disdained populist politics, not least of the sectarian religious variety, and argued for constitutionalism, equality under the law, and the separation of ‘church’ and state. [more]
Chapters in Verse
By John Lennard
Those still suspicious of the verse-novel, artistically or commercially, should think again, for we are in a new ‘Golden Age’ of this art form. [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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