Edward Skidelsky
Articles by Edward Skidelsky
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Ideas
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
- 01 October 2009
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This year’s Reith lecturer, Michael Sandel, transforms moral philosophy by putting it at the heart of civic debate.
Opera
An affair of the masses
- 14 February 2008
Chinese opera is not all shrieks and bangs, as Edward Skidelsky discovers on a visit to Shanghai
Culture
A matter of perspective
- 21 August 2006
The Objective Eye: colour, form and reality in the theory of art John Hyman University of Chicago Press, 286pp, £20 ISBN 0226365530
Ideas
The ideas corner: A less than perfect world
- 31 July 2006
The green cause has had some unlikely advocates, finds Edward Skidelsky
Ideas
Objects of veneration
- 26 June 2006
Edward Skidelsky finds that aesthetic appreciation is a surprisingly modern idea
Books
Out on a limb
- 06 February 2006
White on Black Ruben Gallego John Murray, 160pp, £10 ISBN 0719561361
Books
Animal kindness
- 21 November 2005
Our Inner Ape: the best and worst of human nature Frans de Waal Granta Books, 272pp, £17.99 ISBN 1862077959
Books
Far from heaven. As political leaders lost their fear of hellfire in the 19th century, so the churches lost their ability to restrain them. In Europe, religion became an instrument of state power, paving the way for the horrors of the 20th century
- 10 October 2005
Earthly Powers: religion and politics in Europe from the French revolution to the Great War Michael Burleigh HarperCollins, 530pp, £25 ISBN 0007195729
Books
Total recall
- 08 August 2005
Almost a Childhood: growing up among the Nazis Hans-Georg Behr; translated by Anthea Bell Granta Books, 324pp, £14.99 ISBN 1862077819
Books
Why practice doesn't make perfect . Simon Blackburn claims the foundations of truth lie in our everyday practices of judging and criticising. Edward Skidelsky is unconvinced by a very British assumption
- 23 May 2005
Truth: a guide for the perplexed Simon Blackburn Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 238pp, £14.99 ISBN 0713997184
