JANUARY 2008

OXFORD’S POETRY WARS Bernard Wasserstein Prospec

THE IRISH RICH How a new generation of Irish property tycoons is changing the way the Irish see themselves

POLITICS ESSAYS ARGUMENT

PARMENIDES: FATHER OF MODERN THOUGHT Raymond Tallis

WHY EASTERN EUROPE’S POPULISTS AREN’T SO BAD Ivan Krastev

by John Murray Brown

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In this issue:

CHRIS HASKINS Are we heading for Malthusian meltdown?

ANDREW FEINSTEIN on the ANC’s awful choice

RORY STEWART VS SHERARD COWPERCOLES Are we failing in Afghanistan?

DAVID GOODHART What Gordon Brown should do next

LINDA GRANT on why writers shouldn’t have consciences

FREDERIC RAPHAEL John Berger’s bad faith

JULIAN BAGGINI Why the British aren’t as liberal as they think

FICTION by Ruth Rendell

The Cul tura l Yea r

The m ost o verra ted a nd

unde rrated book s and

even ts of 2007