American Freedom: Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road
By Steven Michels Sinclair Lewis is experiencing a renaissance of late—but not for a reason he would have liked. His 1935 novel, It Can’t Happen…
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The Case for Working with Your Hands or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good, by Matthew Crawford
By Sean Bell It is a good story: a disillusioned policy wonk and former cubicle drone forgoes the certainties of highly-paid intellectual work to find…
Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Growth
By Angus Kennedy Reviewing Daniel Ben-Ami’s excellent Ferraris for All, Bryan Appleyard dubbed him a ‘hard human exceptionalist’ for his defence of the need for…
Data Management with Mobile Devices
Living in the age of the Internet and mobile technologies gradually changes people’s mentalities. The simplicity with which you can search for any information you…
Angel Time: The Songs Of The Seraphim, by Anne Rice
By Alicia Rudd From its initial façade, the latest novel by international best-selling author Anne Rice carries the attractive promise of being a ‘dark gothic…
And This is True
By Chris Sims ‘Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true,’ writes Proust in Remembrance of Things Past.…
Inventing the Recording
By Eva Moreda Rodríguez To the question “When were recordings invented?”, we might be tempted to answer “1877”—the year when Thomas A. Edison was first…
Rescuing England: The Rhetoric of Imperialism and the Salvation Army
By Ellen J. Stockstill The first sight to greet the reader upon opening William Booth’s In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890), his book…
Tosca, ENO, Coliseum, London
By Sarah Boyes Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is a notoriously popular composer. Popular, in terms of sheer numbers of admirers during his lifetime and enduring resonance…
Romeo and Juliet, Rose Theatre, London
By Miriam Gillinson A white mist unfurls onstage. Two armies filter forward—it is hard to make them out through the fog—and begin to mime a…
Marketing Research and Decision Making
By Nicholas Klacsanzky In any sphere of life, it is important to be able to make well-informed decisions. The popular approach, “seize each moment,” is…
Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change
By Robin Walsh Clive Hamilton has written a remarkable book. He has managed to take environmentalism and strip out its positive aspects—its utopianism and humanitarianism,…
Up in the Air
By Dennis Hayes Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air is one of those rare films that deals with contemporary working life. It focuses on the…
The Girl Who Played With Fire
By David Bowden Second parts of trilogies are notoriously hard work: by definition, they are to some extent shorn of the structural unity offered by…
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
By Angelica Michelis The final part of Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy starts exactly where the second volume has finished: Lisbeth Salander, the plucky and unusual heroine…
Harry Brown
By Mark Carrigan This film tells the story of Harry Brown, a pensioner living on a decaying housing estate in South London. Formerly a marine,…
The Ghost Writer
By Mark Carrigan Given the likelihood that its director Roman Polanski may never make another film, it is difficult not to approach The Ghost Writer…
Harlan County, USA
By Dan Schneider Barbara Kopple is one of those filmmakers who can do just about any film well. And so much so that when she…
The Tyranny of Guilt, an Essay on Western Masochism, by Pascal Bruckner
By Tara McCormack The other day on the train, I came across a copy of the Daily Express. It is not a paper I normally…
Consumer Expectations on the Social Accountability of Business
Long have gone the times when business was all about making money no matter what. Of course, even nowadays we can witness profiteering, financial and…