Issue 49
February 2000
Contents
Education: The story so far
20th February 2000 — Issue 49
For most of the past 150 years education for the many has been of little concern to central governments. This government is determined to be different. The prime minister explains its mission for diversity with excellence in schools
Millennium briefing: climate change
20th February 2000 — Issue 49
Climate is complex. Greenhouse gases, living systems, the circulation of the oceans and the planet's orbit all influence the earth's climate. But can the study of past climate change allow us to predict future trends?
St George's shroud
20th February 2000 — Issue 49
In the 50 years since his death, Orwell has become England's secular saint.
Stranger in a strange land
20th February 2000 — Issue 49
Japan can look like a compendium of all the world's cultures. But it is just strange enough to make an eternal outsider feel at home
A new biology
20th February 2000 — Issue 49
The next century may belong to biology, but in the hands of a generation of ultra-Darwinists, it is suffering from a crude reductionism
Sense and nonsense
20th February 2000 — Issue 49
Although a few of the great philosophers have been poor writers, obscurity must never be equated with profundity
High art, high altar
20th February 2000 — Issue 49
If high art is the new religion, then we had better watch out
Square one
20th February 2000 — Issue 49
Thomas Sowell's has a large reputation, but not large enough
Greene on the screen
20th February 2000 — Issue 49
Why is Graham Greene so difficult to adapt to film?
Women behaving badly
20th February 2000 — Issue 49
Are the loathsome anti-heroines of the new "city girl" books evidence that feminism has failed or succeeded too well?