This week on Culture Wars, Luke Gittos considers Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism and Humanism as a work of ‘popular philosophy’, raising questions about the reception of ideas and the role of intellectuals past and present. Meanwhile Dolan Cummings begins his US election blog by setting the scene for a ‘phony culture war election’.

Also: Reviews of current London theatre, including Juliette Binoche’s and Akram Khan’s in-i

at the National Theatre and Kenneth Branagh as Ivanov in the West End.

25 September 2008

Don’t miss last week’s highlight: Steve Fuller responds to Robin Walsh’s review of his controversial book on Darwinism and Creationism.