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Boomerang Kids

Moving back to your parents’ house is fun at first, but boomeranging is a cause for concern Normally when I pop in to see my parents, my Mum bursts out of the

June 25, 2009

Counterpoints·Economy·Education·Modern Life

Editorial image for "The Promised Land?" — Balfour & Weizmann: The Zionist, the Zealot and the Declaration which…

Balfour & Weizmann: The Zionist, the Zealot and the Declaration which Changed the World by Geoffrey Lewis'A Senseless, Squalid War': Voices from Palestine 1945-1948 by Norman RoseOne State, Two States: Resolving the

June 25, 2009

Books·History·Israel·Judaism·Middle East

Not Tonight, Pauline

Venus of Empire: The Life of Pauline Bonaparte by Flora Fraser

June 25, 2009

Books·France·History·Literature

The Friend who Failed

Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing by Steven J. Zipperstein

June 25, 2009

Books·Literature

Men on the Menu

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu

June 25, 2009

Academia·Books·Philosophy

Swallowing the Party Line

The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers

June 25, 2009

Books·Communism·Espionage·Literature·Russia

From Job to the Enlightenment

Susan Neiman’s reading of the Enlightenment is certainly distinctive, but also offers a courageous and uplifting attempt to tell the story as it is Our idea of modernity is in many ways

June 25, 2009

Critique·Faith·Philosophy

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The usual hotchpotch at the RA Summer Exhibition and some awful Americana from Charles Saatchi

June 24, 2009

Art

To One War, 55 Marks

This year’s war on expenses is nothing compared to the one started in 1939 – World War II In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes,”

June 24, 2009

Counterpoints·Germany·History·Poland·UK Politics·Westminster

United States: The Path to Rome via San Francisco

‘In the 1950s, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene wrote triumphalist Catholic novels with miracles as part of the story — Brideshead Revisited, The End of the Affair. They were bestsellers. Since Vatican II,

June 24, 2009

Dispatches·Literature·North America·The Catholic Church

Paris: Prisoner of the Barbarians

‘In February 2007, a naked, emaciated, mutilated, charred and stabbed man is discovered near railway tracks in the Parisian suburb of Sainte Geneviève-des-Bois. He is taken to hospital where he is pronounced dead

June 24, 2009

Dispatches·France·Islam·Judaism

Demons in the Details

Hollywood and physics should be kept apart — pretty much like matter and anti-matter

June 24, 2009

Cosmos·Film·Science

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