Features
Timothy Garton-Ash / June 20, 1996
The post-Maastricht EU has its priorities wrong. Monetary union is more likely to divide than unite. Timothy Garton Ash bets on it not going ahead and proposes that Britain should launch a "second...
Christopher Wills / May 20, 1996
Stories of untreatable new diseases, from Aids to Ebola to Creutzfeldt-Jakob, fill the headlines. Might they foretell epidemics on the scale of the Black Death, and even the end of the human race? Or...
John Kay / May 20, 1996
John Kay, Britain's leading "stakeholder" economist, separates the virtues of market economics from the vices of aggressive individualism. He argues that individualistic market economies are less...
Ernest Gellner / May 20, 1996
The late Ernest Gellner, a life-long anti-communist, deplored the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Here he explains his regrets-for those in the east who have had their moral universe shattered,...
Julia Hobsbawm / May 20, 1996
Absolutely off the record
Dear Peter,
I feel rather naughty writing to you. A taboo is being broken. Everyone knows that there is an "us" and "them" and you are definitely not one of "us." By which I...
Neal Ascherson / May 20, 1996
The assertion of national identities within the United Kingdom has left Britain in an identity muddle. Englishness, stripped of Britishness, has acquired illiberal connotations. But Neal Ascherson...
Sophie Pedder / May 20, 1996
Apartheid is over but the battle to control South Africa's institutions is just beginning. Sophie Pedder reports on the succession crisis dividing the liberal English-speaking University of the...
George Steiner / May 20, 1996
Will virtual reality spell the end of the literary imagination? George Steiner argues that new technologies will destroy the point of the novel-its permanence. This is no tragedy. Talent has already...
Ian Buruma / May 20, 1996
In China's age of economic liberalisation, the new Shanghai is being ordered to get rich again - on condition that artists and writers, who gave the old Shanghai its free spirit, stay mute. Ian...
Beppe Severgnini / April 20, 1996
Beppe Severgnini talks to Walter Veltroni, the man who wants to turn Italy's ex-communist party into an American-style democraticc party