Editorial Team
CW editorial note - 4 March 2010
High-rise London, cynicism about heroes, and London theatre
CW editorial note - 25 February 2010
Deliberative democracy, My Name is Khan, and political performance
CW editorial note - 18 February 2010
Women and equality, Natasha Walter and public schools
CW editorial note - 11 February 2010
UK general election, POWER2010 and socially conscious films
CW editorial note - 4 February 2010
HBO’s latest, world in wonder, detectives and spies
CW editorial note - 28 January 2010
Charles Taylor, Barbara Ehrenreich and more mime
CW editorial note - 21 January 2010
The London Mime Festival, Benjamin Franklin, positive thinking and Brummies.
CW editorial note - 14 January 2010
India’s identity politics, films about loneliness, scapegoating and German theatre.
CW editorial note - 7 January 2010
Poppy day, the carnivalesque and Lenin in exile
CW editorial note - 23 December 2009
The Bully State, progressive education and Keira Knightley.
CW editorial note - 11 December 2009
Fay Weldon’s Chalcot Crescent, Cathi Unsworth’s Bad Penny Blues, plus Jonathan Meades, The Girlfriend Experience and identity.
CW editorial note - 4 December 2009
Terry Eagleton, Jerry Cohen, and London theatre
CW editorial note - 27 November 2009
Wolf Hall, The Little Stranger, plus The Habit of Art and lots more London theatre.
CW editorial note - 20 November 2009
Jolly Wicked, Actually, Asian food, and Bright Star
CW editorial note - 13 November 2009
Delete, contemporary classical music, the arts and protest and the UK’s Supreme Court
CW editorial note - 6 November 2009
Frank Auerbach’s London building sites, post-colonial Africa, poetry and ghost stories.
CW editorial note - 3 November 2009
Public space, Chelsea Theatre’s SACRED festival, vampires and other theatre
CW editorial note - 23 October 2009
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and the birth of the modern man, Romanian cinema, Damien Hirst etc.
CW editorial note - 16 October 2009
Dramas out of crisis, Fantastic Mr Fox, Andrew Motion’s The Cinder Path and rites of passage.
CW editorial note - 9 October 2009
More satellites, some theatre, and more prawns.
CW editorial note - 2 October 2009
History and scholarship, Darwin and therapy culture, District 9 and a radical lawyer.
CW editorial note - 25 September 2009
Le Grand Macabre, popular opera, David Mamet and ‘raunch culture’
CW editorial note - 18 September 2009
Thomas Paine, 2nd May 2007, industrial policy and Mathilde Rosier
CW editorial note - 4 September 2009
Outbreak 1939, and why bother reading?
CW editorial note - 28 August 2009
Matt Trueman wins the 2009 Allen Wright Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, musings on music criticism, the politics of media, Kadare and Amis.
CW editorial note - 14 August 2009
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the National Youth Orchestra at the Proms
CW editorial note - 7 August 2009
Historicising the therapeutic turn, John Calvin and Blood Wedding in London.
CW editorial note - 31 July 2009
Mind, brain and self in the age of Facebook, and a lousy West End musical
CW editorial note - 24 July 2009
Battle of Ideas, Eight, Container and Black Rock
CW editorial note - 17 July 2009
The psychology of well-being, financial crisis drama and the limits of autonomy.
CW editorial note - 10 July 2009
Luke Kennard, Adam Foulds, gay icons and Medea.
CW editorial note - 3 July 2009
Medea adaptations in London, and Freedom Summer in Brighton.
CW editorial note - 26 June 2009
Columbine shootings, Fanny and Alexander, As you like it and Novel about my wife.
CW editorial note - 19 June 2009
Human rights, twenty-somethings and the recession, and Kursk
CW editorial note - 12 June 2009
London theatre, opera and dance, and the case for a drinking culture
CW editorial note - 5 June 2009
Jazz mythology, Žižek’s Violence and Wendy and Lucy.
CW editorial note - 29 May 2009
Free speech and deception, Philip Ó Ceallaigh’s short stories and London theatre.
CW editorial note - 22 May 2009
The politics of rap in a changing America, Ranger3, the art of democracy, the Battle for the Economy and confrontational theatre.
CW editorial note - 15 May 2009
Post G20 Public Summit on the economy, the ascent of money and world trade, and plays about climate change.
CW editorial note - 8 May 2009
Agnosticism, genetics, reason and rationality and public art
CW editorial note - 1 May 2009
Obama poetry, materialist spirituality, the baroque at the V&A and London theatre.
CW editorial note - 24 April 2009
Feelbad Britain, Kneehigh’s Don John, Juan Mayorga’s Nocturnal and El Sistema in the UK.
CW editorial note - 19 April 2009
Maggie’s End, the Whitechapel Gallery, and a new cultural paradigm in the US.
CW editorial note - 10 April 2009
Modern liberty, the idea of communism, sex education and poetry performed.
CW editorial note - 3 April 2009
Alain de Botton, the state of the arts and Lorca’s remains
CW editorial note - 27 March 2009
Reclaiming Childhood, deradicalisation, London theatre, John Adams’ Dr Atomic and more.
CW editorial note - 20 March 2009
Le Corbusier, Ashok Sukumaran, kindess, the YBAs and the Format International Photography Festival.
CW editorial note - 13 March 2009
Terry Eagleton’s Trouble with Strangers, Conor Foley’s humanitarian blues and Generation Kill on DVD.
CW editorial note - 6 March 2009
Uncultured Wars, propaganda, and credit and blame.
CW editorial note - 27 February 2009
Neuroscience and subjectivity, South Africa, ‘real’ Marxists, David Hare and The Taming of the Shrew.
CW editorial note - 20 February 2009
Clothes (The Art of Living), the history of light entertainment, and contemporary Muslim identity.
CW editorial note - 13 February 2009
The international well-being agenda, Middle Eastern art, Bill Viola and London theatre
CW editorial note - 6 February 2009
What Confucius said about personal liberty, the role of subversion in film noir, therapy in a play and two paths to radicalism.
CW editorial note - 30 January 2009
Bauman’s ethics, Mendes’ and Yates’ Revolutionary Road, Intentism and Eunoia.
Film Focus Alfred Hitchcock, -Jan
Culture Wars writers take a closer look at some of Hitchcock’s key works in order to understand both his artistic methods, but also the impact these films have on the modern audiences.
CW editorial note - 23 January 2009
What happened to the ‘wrecking crew’? A ‘new cultural paradigm’? Obama: President of the World?
CW editorial note - 16 January 2009
The future of community, ‘well-being’ in schools and more Alfred Hitchcock.
CW editorial note - 7 January 2009
Liberalism and Protestantism, Che, Alfred Hitchcock and new fiction.
CW editorial note - 19 December 2008
European cinema, Haitian politics, artistic integrity and emotion in theatre.
CW editorial note - 12 December 2008
English Civil War drama The Devil’s Whore, London theatre and the Turner Prize 2008.
CW editorial note - 5 December 2008
The Relevance of Marxism, anti-Maoist revisionism, Obamanomics and The Fall.
CW editorial note - 28 November 2008
Nam Le’s The Boat and Byzantium at the Royal Academy
CW editorial note - 21 November 2008
The ‘New Blue Media’ in the US, science documentaries and discipline and participation in music.
CW editorial note - 13 November 2008
Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes respond to Lee Jones’ review of their book, The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education, plus James Bond, Andy Warhol, Annie Leibowitz and Francis Bacon.
CW editorial note - 7 November 2008
The week after the Battle of Ideas sees the election of Obama, and CW looks at negativity in supercapitalism, the ploys of fame and the implications of a puppy in the White House.
CW editorial note - 31 October 2008
Community art, inter-generational anxiety and keynote Battles in Print.
CW editorial note - 24 October 2008
2008 Man Booker Prize winner The White Tiger, plus celebrity culture, ethical realism in American foreign policy, death in literature and more.
CW editorial note - 17 October 2008
Reviews of the 2008 Man Booker shortlist, and new novels by Zoë Heller and Lee Siegel. Plus Documenting Live Art, and Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon.
CW editorial note - 10 October 2008
The launch of a new blog on the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, plus coverage of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and the Raindance Independent Film Festival.
CW editorial note - 2 October 2008
A critical take on The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education, by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes; Natsuo Kirino’s Real World; CERN and the Current Affairs Forum
CW editorial note - 25 September 2008
Sartre as a popular philosopher, the US elections, and London theatre
CW editorial note - 18 September 2008
Orhan Pamuk’s Snow, a response from Steve Fuller and new productions of Timon of Athens and Six Characters in Search of an Author.
CW editorial note - 12 September 2008
Hildegart Rodriguez, Clay Shirky, Sudhir Venkatesh, Peter Moskos
CW editorial note - 4 September 2008
Steve Fuller’s Dissent over Descent, Paul Ginsborg’s Democracy, more from the Edinburgh Fringe and a eulogy for Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
CW editorial note - 28 August 2008
Coverage of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and a restrospective look at Lebanon, Hadrian, Monument Park in Budapest and The Curse of History.
