Edward Skidelsky

Articles by Edward Skidelsky

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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

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

The ideas corner: A less than perfect world

  • 31 July 2006

The green cause has had some unlikely advocates, finds Edward Skidelsky

Objects of veneration

  • 26 June 2006

Edward Skidelsky finds that aesthetic appreciation is a surprisingly modern idea

Out on a limb

  • 06 February 2006

White on Black
Ruben Gallego John Murray, 160pp, £10
ISBN 0719561361

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

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

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

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

The adventure of reason

  • 01 January 2005

Philosophy - Edward Skidelsky has his soul comforted by the ruminations of a Berlin discussion group

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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