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Books
Together: the Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation
20 February 2012
Books
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
01 October 2009

This year’s Reith lecturer, Michael Sandel, transforms moral philosophy by putting it at the heart o

Asia
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

Books
A matter of perspective
21 August 2006

The Objective Eye: colour, form and reality in the theory of art

John Hyman U

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

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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

Michae

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Total recall
08 August 2005

Almost a Childhood: growing up among the Nazis

Hans-Georg Behr; translated by Anthea Bell Gra

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