Issue 55
August 2000
Contents
Inequality: The long view
20th August 2000 — Issue 55
The rise in inequality, especially in the Anglo-Saxon world, has become an obsession of policy makers. In fact, it is less steep and probably less permanent than they imagine, and is overshadowed by a remarkable reduction in world inequality. By Paul Ormerod.
France vs Germany: What kind of Europe?
20th August 2000 — Issue 55
The recent speech by Joschka Fischer, the German foreign minister, in praise of European federation was attacked by Jean-Pierre Chevènement, the French minister. Here they debate the nature of European integration
The pope of literature
20th August 2000 — Issue 55
Marcel Reich-Ranicki is Germany's most influential critic, who enjoys the authority of a literary lawgiver. Is this because he is a Polish Jew?
The lazy tourist
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Leptis Magna. The four syllables were a summons. As soon as I heard them I knew I had to go
The houses of fun
20th August 2000 — Issue 55
Tate Modern is the latest in a series of contemporary art museums which are not primarily concerned with art. Rather, they are toys of architects and curators
After "After Britain"
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Donald Dewar and Francis Fukuyama share the same anxiety that all forms of nation-building will collapse into ethnic nationalism. They are wrong
Natural science
20th August 2000 — Issue 55
How can we explain both our disquiet about the new genetics and our enthusiasm biological explanations of human nature?
Defending apathy
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We should stop fretting about the declining interest in traditional politics. It is perfectly healthy
Multicultural flaws
20th August 2000 — Issue 55
One of America's leading black conservatives pokes fun at multiculturalism in education
Where is Kossoff?
20th August 2000 — Issue 55
Leon Kossoff's absence from Tate Modern is further evidence that curators have given up trying to help us appreciate the language of painting, says Susannah Fiennes
Two Russian films
20th August 2000 — Issue 55
The battle of Russia's past is played out in two films: one indescribably cynical, the other too painful to watch
Dworkin's desert island
20th August 2000 — Issue 55
Why the eminent political philosopher is ignored by modern politicians
Morals and metaphysics
20th August 2000 — Issue 55
Penelope Fitzgerald is Jane Austen's nearest heir, but with a continental, metaphysical touch
The End
20th August 2000 — Issue 55
The expression "terminal" had struck Meershank with a comic bounce
