Civilisation- Page 63

Art, books, music, theatre and criticism from Standpoint. Criticism as argument, not consumer advice.

Do the Times Require a Conyers Middleton?

He is an 18th-century deist with a message for today's aggressive atheists: religion has a social value, and saves us from the return to a Hobbesian state of nature

September 27, 2010

Critique·Faith·Science·The Church of England

Poetry in Motion

Photographic pioneer, inventor and killer, Eadweard Muybridge was a very complex character indeed

August 23, 2010

Art

The Misfit at No 10

State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook and Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler

August 23, 2010

Books·Literature·UK Politics·Westminster

It’s Not God Who Needs Saving – It’s Us

Instead of embarking on the project of "saving God" by replacing him with the natural and human shaped world, it is perhaps time to acknowledge that it is we ourselves that need

August 23, 2010

Critique·Faith·Philosophy·Science