Blogs
Culture Wars blogs allow contributors to take a critical and considered look at particular current events and phenomena as and when they happen. Our weekly editorial notes are also archived here.
Our first blog was Geoff Kidder's seven-part series on the Beijing Olympics.
New: Dolan Cummings on the US elections and Sarah Boyes on the Cultural Olympiad.
Correspondents including the Institute of Ideas' Geoff Kidder and others blog on great sporting events from Beijing 2008 via South Africa 2012 to London 2012.
Discussion of the four-year celebration of culture leading up to the London Olympics, 2012.
CW editorial note - 13 February 2013
Shedding light on art historyLondon exhibitions: Manet at the RA and Light Show at the Hayward
CW editorial note - 28 January 2013
Debating the modern worldPankaj Mishra, Jonathan Meades, Simon Gough and the importance of debating
Debatable assumptions about state schools… and the purpose of debating
A critical response to a recent debate about whether debating should be encouraged in state schoolsTo assume that state school students are unable to raise the confidence to compete with their public school counterparts in debating is both pessimistic and false, as the evidence shows.
CW editorial note - 17 October 2012
The Battle of IdeasThe Battle of Ideas and London theatre
The academy in an era of crisis and intellectual uncertainty
Reflections on the state of academia in advance of a Battle of Ideas Satellite event in Athens on Friday 5 October 2012This predicament of the academy, and its alienation from its primary noble mission, has its roots in the political, ideological and economic condition of our times: the shift in capitalism’s paradigm and its recent serious crisis, the influence of a set of ideas that has become known postmodernism, and also the marketisation of education, leading to a managerial ethos alien to the academy’s quest for truth and excellence.
