Arts & Culture: Ideas
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Rise of the new Anglo-world order
- By Jonathan Derbyshire
- 18 December
It's an old controversy that was reignited this autumn by the remarks of a Nobel Prize judge: is American literature too insular, preoccupied only with the home country? If so, what else should we be reading in the age of globalisation?
New best friends
- By Richard Reeves
- 11 December
Old political certainties are in tatters, but as Gordon Brown and David Cameron struggle to stress their differences, progressive politicians can be found on both sides of the House. They should get together
The triumph of greed
- By Clive Dilnot
- 04 December
Tax evasion, tax avoidance, money laundering: institutionalised crime is so much part of the global economy. Then there is moral crime...
Uncomfortable origins
- By Tom Holland
- 20 November
We have had a remarkable response to Tom Holland's essay of 13 October on the Christian roots of European secularism. Here the author responds
Resourceful thinking
- By Tristan Quinn
- 06 November
Crowdsourcing: How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business
Jeff Howe Random House, 312pp, £17.99
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Golden thread, national myth
Those behind the new Labour revolution are beginning to realise that to discard our heritage is also to betray the origins of many of our liberties. The question is how to interpret the meanings of those liberties for modern political life
More in ideas
Reading the signs
- By Owen Hatherley
- 30 October 2008
These values we hold dear
- By Shami Chakrabarti
- 16 October 2008
Europe's first revolution
- By Tom Holland
- 09 October 2008
Crisis, what crisis?
- By Dominic Sandbrook
- 02 October 2008
Against the evidence
- By Richard Wilson
- 18 September 2008
All in the game
- By Ed Hancox
- 11 September 2008
Songs of freedom
- By Paul Evans
- 04 September 2008
