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Words that think for us: military language

Edward Skidelsky — 25th August 2010 — Issue 174

Ours is a uniquely demilitarised society. War and service are remote from everyday civilian experience. Perhaps in consequence, our language abounds in the crassest military metaphors. Take for instance “the war on x,” where x stands for an abstract entity. The original such war was Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty, but the formula was later [...]

Subject: Intellectuals & ideas

Words that think for us: culture

Edward Skidelsky — 21st July 2010 — Issue 173

Edward Skidelsky on a word that has gone from the sublime to the shapeless

Subject: Intellectuals & ideas

Words that think for us: “liberal”

Edward Skidelsky — 21st June 2010 — Issue 172

Edward Skidelsky exposes abuses of language

Subject: Intellectuals & ideas

Words that think for us: transparency and accountability

Edward Skidelsky — 20th May 2010 — Issue 171

Whenever a costly and useless bureaucratic reform is proposed, it is said to be “in the interests of transparency.” Sometimes the word “accountability” is added, or—for extra force—“democratic accountability.” The whole mantra is reeled off with the sub-cortical fluency of “Catholic and Apostolic Church.” It is an idiom of benediction, soothing and meaningless.
In a not [...]

Subject: Intellectuals & ideas

Words that think for us

Edward Skidelsky — 26th April 2010 — Issue 170

Things can only get better, can’t they?

Words that think for us

Edward Skidelsky — 19th March 2010 — Issue 169 Free entry

Please, stop caring and sharing

Subject: Books & literature

Words that think for us

Edward Skidelsky — 24th February 2010 — Issue 168

The hollowness of human capital

Subject: Intellectuals & ideas

Edward Skidelsky

Edward Skidelsky is a lecturer in philosophy at Exeter University. His book "Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture" is published by Princeton University Press

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