Richard Sennett
Articles by Richard Sennett
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Politics
NS Essay - 'Voluntary work creates an impediment to perceiving and taking seriously the needs of strangers'
- 27 January 2003
Welfare-state bureaucracy has been under fire for more than 20 years. Reformers say that the poor get a better service from volunteers with whom they can form more flexible personal relationships. Wrong, argues Richard Sennett
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay 1 - A society of broken eggs
- 17 December 2001
Richard Sennett on a growing gulf between the metropolitan elite and the rest
Arts & Culture
Bach with bite
- 23 April 2001
Music - Richard Sennett on Peter Sellar's staging of two cantatas
Arts & Culture
Playing away
- 04 December 2000
What do opera and adultery have in common? Richard Sennetton how music keeps up with illicit love
Arts & Culture
Fokine marvellous
- 18 September 2000
The Russian choreographer Michel Fokine revolutionised the art of dancing, and then he was eclipsed by Nijinsky. Richard Sennett tells his glorious and sad story
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Cities without care or connection
- 05 June 2000
New capitalism is destroying the richness of urban life, argues Richard Sennett
Politics
London? Oh, that's Eurasia
- 31 January 2000
Richard Sennett explains that, with US voters looking for an "in-touch" president, knowledge of abroad will be a positive disadvantage
Ideas
The NS Essay - How work destroys social inclusion
- 31 May 1999
Richard Sennettargues that we need to rediscover the virtues of dependency
Books
A spin around the axis of greed. The tycoon who helped destroy the pound on Black Wednesday has written a fierce polemic condemning the very system that he exploited so ruthlessly to earn billions.
- 15 January 1999
The Crisis of Global Capitalism
George Soros Little, Brown, 304pp, £17.99


