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Issue: September 2008

Primal Emotion – in Abstract or Concrete Form
Two exhibitions show how much Francis Bacon and Mark Rothko had in common, despite their different approaches
Michael Prodger

A Loser Aims High
Good to be God by Tibor Fischer
Lucasta Miller

The Torments Of Love
The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson
Jane Shilling

Revolutionary Roundabout
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea
Angelica Goodden

Roger Bacon
Surely the man who can claim to be the world's first experimental scientist and to have advised the Pope deserves a better reputation
Nicholas Fearn

John Stuart Mill
Roger Kimball blames the revered advocate of 'experiments in living' for our inability to escape from the quagmire of moral nihilism
Roger Kimball

Patriot, Poet and Prophet
The leading Western historian of Stalinism's horrors first met Alexander Solzhenitsyn when the novelist was expelled from the USSR in 1974. Here he recalls his genius and his courage
Robert Conquest

What Do We Mean by ‘Art’?
Art is not culture or entertainment, it is complexity, the 'I' in life, ambition, the ambiguity of humanity, serious about itself
Richard Eyre

The End of ‘Chimerica’
The delicate balance of power between China and American is unstable and the geopolitical consequences will affect us all
Niall Ferguson

Would You Mind Turning It Down?
When I tried to confront anti-social behaviour, nobody dared to back me up. So what's wrong with us?
Peter Whittle

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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