Edward Skidelsky
Articles by Edward Skidelsky
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Politics
Why Ecstasy is the capitalist pill
- 24 April 2000
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Cannabis encouraged dissent. New drugs help you to love the market
Books
Comforting, but meaningless. In seeking to popularise philosophy, Alain de Botton has merely trivialised it, smoothing the discipline into a series of silly sound bites. By Edward Skidelsky
- 27 March 2000
The Consolations of Philosophy Alain de Botton Hamish Hamilton, 320pp, £14.99 ISBN 0241140099
Books
The wealth of nations. Capitalism, far from being natural and inevitable, can only be created through political intervention. But that doesn't mean we can uninvent it, writes Edward Skidelsky
- 28 February 2000
The origin of capitalism Ellen Meiksins Wood Monthly Review Press, 138pp, £13 ISBN 1583670009
Books
Eyes wide shut. Edward Skidelsky reads Freud's great work 100 years after its first publication, and finds himself wandering through the sleazy back alleys of the Victorian mind
- 17 January 2000
The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud (translated by Joyce Crick) Oxford University Press, 458pp, £20 ISBN 0192100491
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Wretched defeat
- 10 January 2000
Godless Morality Richard Holloway Canongate Books, 162pp, £9.99 ISBN 0862419093
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A nation enslaved by its past. Russians have always valued freedom as an ideal. But, argues Edward Skidelsky, it is an inward, spiritual freedom which has never been translated into civic liberty
- 13 September 1999
Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum Martin Malia The Belknap Press at the Harvard University Press, 524pp, £21.95 ISBN 0674781201
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For the love of Stalin. The Anglo-Saxon world has been a bystander to the century's great passion: communism. What was its appeal to Continental intellectuals? And can we be sure that it won't return?
- 26 July 1999
The Passing of an Illusion Francois Furet University of Chicago Press, 561pp, £27.95 ISBN 0226273407
Society
The New Statesman Profile - Perry Anderson
- 19 March 1999
He is one of Britain's great Marxist intellectuals, yet now he seems a strangely conservative figure
Books
The Darwinian lie
- 15 January 1999
Darwinism Today (series editors Helena Cronin and Oliver Curry) Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £4.99 each Divided Labours Kingsley Browne, 70pp The Truth About Cinderella Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, 68pp
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Mind games
- 11 December 1998
The Emotional Brain Joseph Le Doux Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 384pp, £18.99
