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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
Art
A Loser Aims High
Good to be God
by Tibor Fischer
Lucasta Miller
Books
Faith
Literature
The Catholic Church
The Church of England
The Torments Of Love
The Act of Love
by Howard Jacobson
Jane Shilling
Books
Literature
Revolutionary Roundabout
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914
by Robert Gildea
Angelica Goodden
Books
Constitutional Affairs
France
History
Politics
Western Europe
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
Academia
History
Philosophy
Science
The Catholic Church
Underrated
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
Academia
Overrated
Philosophy
Politics
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
Communism
Features
History
Literature
Russia
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
Art
Features
Film
Literature
Music
Theatre
TV
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
China
Developing World
Economy
Features
Global Governance
International
North America
Politics
US Politics
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
Features
Modern Life
Social Affairs
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
Drawing Board
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