14 August 2000
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
So, who still wants to be a millionaire?
Wealth is no longer the target of class envy. Now the press goes gunning for men and women of taste, influence and cool
Features
Blair needs real enemies, and fast
Westminster - George Lucas
The party in the closet
Many top Tories are a lot more liberal about homosexuality than they dare admit to their grass-root supporters, believes Simon Heffer
What's the point of men?
Masculinity may be in crisis, but save us from New Man, pleads Theodore Dalrymple
Why the Welsh are doing a Lucan
Devolution was Blair's Big Idea, but Wales has found that it comes at a price. Other regions should beware
Down but not out on the estate
Bob Holman asks why new Labour doesn't fund community projects
Heaven and hell on South African soil
Hout Bay has racial tensions, crime, poverty and beauty - a microcosm of South Africa
Regulars
Arts & Culture
Miller's tale
The American Dream has always been Arthur Miller's great subject. At his best, he attacks it. But, writes Nina Raine, he is too often seduced by the comfort of a happy ending
Fringe benefits
Edinburgh Festival - Bob Flynn takes refuge in a converted bus depot to escape the corporate clamour
Entertainingly tedious
Computer Games - Adam Wishart finds Elizabethan tragedy in the virtual suburbia of The Sims
Television
Dodgy mates
Television - Andrew Billen follows the thrills and spills of a good night out and a cosy night in
Food
Let them eat melons
Food - Bee Wilson tells American Republicans how to cool down after their convention
Books
Knowing too much. Philosophy as practised by the great thinkers of the past is at an end. So is philosophy no more than a word for a certain manner of being confused? By Edward Skidelsky
The Great Philosophers: from Socrates to Turing
Edited by Ray Monk and Frederic Raphael Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 470pp, £20
ISBN 0297645900
Sixties spirit
Promise of a Dream: remembering the Sixties
Sheila Rowbotham Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 262pp, £18.99
ISBN 0713994460
Book of life
Stet
Diana Athill Granta Books, 256pp, £12.99
ISBN 1862073880
Darwin wars
Alas, Poor Darwin: arguments against evolutionary psychology
Edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose Jonathan Cape, 292pp, £17.99
ISBN 0609605135
Observations
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