Culture: Ideas

Night at the Museum

As the guardians of the souls of our communities, local cultural institutions must fight and adapt in the face of budget cuts.

Bad idea: Political police

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Waking the dead

For Walter Benjamin, history was more than a series of dispassionate facts. He showed how the struggle for the past shapes our future

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Good idea: Thinkers unite

Since the dawn of time

Two hundred years after Darwin’s birth, scientists still can’t agree on whether evolution and religion can happily coexist

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What do you call a male ferret?

Good idea: Trust the experts

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Interview with Slavoj Zizek - full transcript

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“I am a Leninist. Lenin wasn’t afraid to dirty his hands. If you can get power, grab it”

The eminent thinker Slavoj Žižek tells Jonathan Derbyshire why he rejects mainstream political theory, why he supports Barack Obama, and why we need Marx more than ever

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Good idea: Starting from scratch