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August 17, 2009
The Red Flag
...cloak of nationalism, to protect themselves from their neighbours rather than out of any serious conviction. In 1992, Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History and the Last Man, arguing that liberal democracy had triumphed, and that the great ideological...to mind in describing the grim, grey world that most communist countries had become by the 1980s. Priestland presents Joseph Stalin as a romantic, Lenin as a moderniser. Mao Zedong was a romantic, Deng Xiaoping a moderniser. But he also believes... Review by Quentin Peel
October 26, 2009
Philippine military moves into politics
...the military. But a fact-finding commission concluded it was an attempt to oust Mrs Arroyo, restore former president Joseph Estrada to power and establish a revolutionary council. Political analysts say the Magdalo party could create a political...colonel, for the Senate, and four junior officers for congress and local government posts. The group is supporting senator Francis Escudero, the youngest candidate, for 2010's presidential polls. By Roel Landingin in Manila
October 25, 2009
Philippine military moves into politics
...the military. But a fact-finding commission concluded it was an attempt to oust Mrs Arroyo, restore former president Joseph Estrada to power and establish a revolutionary council. Political analysts say the Magdalo party could create a political...colonel, for the Senate, and four junior officers for congress and local government posts. The group is supporting senator Francis Escudero, the youngest candidate, for 2010’s presidential polls. By Roel Landingin in Manila
October 15, 2009
American Stories, Metropolitan Museum, NY
...schmaltz. Bourgeois buyers wanted a homespun blend of education and edification, like “The New Bonnet” (1858) by Francis William Edmonds, in which the owner of some frilly new headgear is a preening coquette who ignores her parents’ disapproval...sultry beauties of sunset. Even the most disturbingly sexual picture on display seems to come with a moral lesson. Seymour Joseph Guy’s “Making a Train” spies on a pre-pubescent girl’s fantasy playtime. Alone in a darkened room, she... By Ariella Budick
October 30, 2009
And nation shall speak unto itself
...scorched-earth tactics and invented the concentration camps in which thousands of women and children died. It gave space to Francis Galton, founder of eugenics and advocate of the phasing-out of lesser human “types”. It was great on the music hall...Marie Lloyd. It was touching on the condition of the working and out-of-working classes, and on the pioneering work of Joseph Rowntree in cataloguing their desperate lives. Throughout the programme – as through the earlier History – runs a vein... By John Lloyd
October 16, 2009
And thereby hangs a tale
...toward schmaltz. Bourgeois buyers wanted a homespun blend of education and edification, like "The New Bonnet" (1858) by Francis William Edmonds, in which the owner of some frilly new headgear is a preening coquette who ignores her parents' disapproval...sultry beauties of sunset. Even the most disturbingly sexual picture on display seems to come with a moral lesson. Seymour Joseph Guy's "Making a Train" spies on a pre-pubescent girl's fantasy playtime. Alone in a darkened room, she lets the... By Ariella Budick
December 15, 2009
Fortunio
...instead of layered finesse. In spite of this, the singers shine and especially a robust Canadian contingent: Montreal-born Joseph Kaiser is perfect as the awkward, gangly Fortunio, though the tremolo in his tenor is a question of taste; Jean-François... By Francis Carlin
December 14, 2009
Fortunio, Opéra-Comique, Paris
...instead of layered finesse. In spite of this, the singers shine and especially a robust Canadian contingent: Montreal-born Joseph Kaiser is perfect as the awkward, gangly Fortunio, though the tremolo in his tenor is a question of taste; Jean-François... By Francis Carlin
August 15, 2007
Ingenuity can overcome anything but age
...to entrepreneurs, composers to writers - their real breakthroughs and greatest works are achieved when they are young. Francis Bacon saw it clearly: "Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than counsel; and fitter for...to believe fervently in the future, whereas perhaps the old don't really care - because they will be dead by then. As Joseph Conrad said: "I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last for... By Luke Johnson
August 14, 2007
Ingenuity can overcome anything but age
...entrepreneurs, composers to writers – their real breakthroughs and greatest works are achieved when they are young. Francis Bacon saw it clearly: “Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than counsel; and fitter for...believe fervently in the future, whereas perhaps the old don’t really care – because they will be dead by then. As Joseph Conrad said: “I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more – the feeling that I could last... By Luke Johnson