Could do better

This week on CW, Lee Jones reports on the fourth in a series of seminars on emotional well-being and social justice, this time looking at perspectives from psychology. For Jones, the psychology of well-being is dubious, and its application in education is really about behaviour management and reconciling children to a flawed society. Dolan Cummings reviews Freefall, Dominic Savage’s BBC drama about the financial crisis, and finds similar questions about the culture of low horizons in Britain today lurking beneath the moralism about greed. Meanwhile Luke Gittos reviews Charles Foster’s Choosing Life, Choosing Death, and ponders the limits of autonomy, the limits of life, and the limits of the law.

17 July 2009