Arts & Culture: Ideas
Lead Feature
No gripes with God
Mankind cannot abandon the concept of God, says novelist Tabish Khair - despite the arguments of atheist 'fundamentalists' and the failings of religion
In ideas
Small steps to wider détente
- By Umberto Eco
- 21 August
Umberto Eco meditates on localised truces as a strategy to inspire broader peace
The Death of Michael Baxandall
- By Martin Bright
- 19 August
The passing of a great art critic stirs mixed memories
Supreme misnomers
- By Susan Jacoby
- 14 August
In a semantic mess, wanting the best has become "elitist"
Truth is awkward
- By Barbara Gunnell
- 07 August
Barbara Gunnell on why we prize honesty, yet hate to challenge those who lie
Totalitarian recall
- By Owen Hatherley
- 31 July
Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State
Steven Heller
Phaidon, 240pp, £45
Feature
Telling it like it is
Has public life become less respectful? Or are "straight-talking" politicians simply a manifestation of our own expectations?
More in ideas
Here comes everybody
- By Elaine Morgan
- 24 July 2008
The one and the many
- By Robert Ilson
- 17 July 2008
Let's get critical
- By Julian Baggini
- 10 July 2008
Cameronism
- By Richard Reeves
- 26 June 2008
Art isn't working
- By Vaughan Allen
- 26 June 2008
Truly, madly, politically
- By Catherine Fieschi
- 19 June 2008
Take the talking cure
- By Gloria Origgi
- 19 June 2008
