Vexation and vilification

This week on CW, Rob Clowes reviews John Armstong’s In Search of Civilisation, and makes the case for rehabilitating this tainted idea, while Temi Ogunye reflects on an Intelligence Squared debate in London that pointed beyond the usual to-and-fro between Christians and secularists.

Patrick West reviews Fred Inglis’ A Brief History of Celebrity, and argues there is more to the phenomenon than its right-thinking disdainers allow, while Timandra Harkness reviews the ENO’s new production of Don Giovanni, and reflects on contemporary society’s troubled relationship with sexuality.

21 November 2010