Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Articles by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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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

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

The New Statesman Essay - The rise of the philistines

  • 04 December 1998

Geoffrey Wheatcroft laments the paucity of politicians who can quote Homer

Children's books - Sniffing out the past

  • 04 December 1998

History

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

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

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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