Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Articles by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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Ideas
The NS Essay - How generals help the pacifists
- 10 May 1999
History shows that battlefield disasters rather than peace rallies or pamphlets give wars bad reputations
Books
Look right, look left, look right again. Quoted by Major and Blair, a hero of Republican hawks in America, an anti-Stalinist, a "Tory Socialist" - Orwell's politics remain endlessly open to interpretation. Why?
- 02 April 1999
Orwell's Politics John Newsinger Macmillan, 224pp, £42.50
Books
From the margins to the centre. The English mistrust of ideas has allowed the influence of French thinkers to dominate academe and cultural journalism. Two new books reopen the old ideological wounds
- 05 February 1999
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century Tony Judt Chicago University Press, 196pp, £13.95
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - The rise of the philistines
- 04 December 1998
Geoffrey Wheatcroft laments the paucity of politicians who can quote Homer
Books
The darkness at noon for Arthur Koestler was in his heart. Yet his early work, inspired by his disillusionment with communism, will survive the memory of his unlovable personality
- 20 November 1998
Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind David Cesarani Heinemann, 646pp, £25
