Arts & Culture: Ideas
Lead Feature
Songs of freedom
Paul Evans on why music poses a threat to tyrants and overbearing governments
In ideas
No gripes with God
- By Tabish Khair
- 22 August
Mankind cannot abandon the concept of God, says novelist Tabish Khair - despite the arguments of atheist 'fundamentalists' and the failings of religion
Telling it like it is
- By John Gaffney
- 22 August
Has public life become less respectful? Or are "straight-talking" politicians simply a manifestation of our own expectations?
Small steps to wider détente
- By Umberto Eco
- 21 August
Umberto Eco meditates on localised truces as a strategy to inspire broader peace
The Death of Michael Baxandall
- By Martin Bright
- 19 August
The passing of a great art critic stirs mixed memories
Supreme misnomers
- By Susan Jacoby
- 14 August
In a semantic mess, wanting the best has become "elitist"
Truth is awkward
- By Barbara Gunnell
- 07 August
Barbara Gunnell on why we prize honesty, yet hate to challenge those who lie
More in ideas
Power and wisdom
- By Mark Vernon
- 31 July 2008
Totalitarian recall
- By Owen Hatherley
- 31 July 2008
Here comes everybody
- By Elaine Morgan
- 24 July 2008
The one and the many
- By Robert Ilson
- 17 July 2008
Let's get critical
- By Julian Baggini
- 10 July 2008
Cameronism
- By Richard Reeves
- 26 June 2008
Art isn't working
- By Vaughan Allen
- 26 June 2008
