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Eric Hobsbawm

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First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Conservatives and the Non-Triumph of Capitalism

In recent contributions to First Things, theologian R.R. Reno and legal scholar Robert T. Miller have debated several questions concerning conservatism, capitalism, and the governments economic role. Obviously the discussion is complicated by the inexactitude ... [Published Acton Commentary - May 16 2013]

Entities: Reno (United States), Arthur Brooks, Eric Hobsbawm, Alexis de Tocqueville

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Guest Post: A History of Equality

For the next four weeks, University of Victoria professor and economist Paul Summerville will provide guest commentary on The Agenda's blog. Throughout the series, Summerville will explore a debate that has picked up in intensity since the financial crisis: ... [Published TVO.org - May 14 2013]

Entities: Paul Summerville, Equality, Democracy, Ronald Reagan

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

The Gallery's for turning: NPG steers to the Right with new appointment

Roberts is being lined up to replace$ Sir David Cannadine, Cambridge and Princeton historian and author of the Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, who was on the board from 2005 and chairman of the trustees until last year.Only last month Schama, ... [Published London Evening Standard - May 14 2013]

Entities: Appointment, Roberts, Sir Peter Bazalgette, David Cannadine, William Shawcross

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

The End of Us and Them

Historians need conflict as poets need spring. Just a smattering of examples: Frederick J. Teggart, writing as the First World War came to an end, called civilization “the result of the stimulus evoked by the friction of one group upon another.” The same ... [Published Daily Beast - May 10 2013]

Entities: David Cannadine, Oswald Spengler, Edward Gibbon, Samuel P Huntington

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 2 reports

Giorgio Napolitano

21:05 Political challenges that face Italian and French left

As a member of the former Italian Communist party (PCI), can I respond to two assertions made by Alberto Toscano in his article on the new Italian government (Comment, 30 April)?First, he claims that the proposed historic compromise, supported by Giorgio ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 03 2013]

Entities: Giorgio Napolitano, Eric Hobsbawm, Government of Italy

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

The play is the thing: drama and food research | Tom Wakeford

Hobsbawm said that with the democratisation of politics, power increasingly became theatre. We've taken him at his wordWhen we announced that our new initiative to re-think UK agri-food research policy would use drama as a core design feature, several ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 01 2013]

Entities: Eric Hobsbawm, Agriculture, United Kingdom, Agri-Food, Democratization

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Marking Eric Hobsbawm’s class

“When Eric was awarded the Balzan Prize in 2003 dedicated to European history since 1900 he donated part of it to cover ongoing research, and it is this spirit of directly funding brilliant academic ideas and endeavour in modern history which we wish ... [Published London Evening Standard - May 01 2013]

Entities: Eric Hobsbawm, David Latchman

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Sarah Sands: Here's how David Cameron can connect with 'ordinary people'

Curiously, being rich and grand can hamper Tory leaders more than socialist ones. At a delightful memorial service for Eric Hobsbawm last week, the author Claire Tomalin recalled asking the Marxist philosopher how he squared having a large Hampstead home ... [Published London Evening Standard - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Sarah Sands, David Cameron, Charles Moore, Eric Hobsbawm, David Tennant

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

In praise of … Giorgio Napolitano | Editorial

It is not just his own country but Europe that is now in debt for the Italian president's statesmanship Italy's president should have spent last week on a well-earned break after stepping down, aged 87. Instead, Giorgio Napolitano answered the call ... [Published Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Giorgio Napolitano, Italy, Eric Hobsbawm

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Optimism is appealing, but pessimism, alarm and anxiety are more my thing | Ian Jack

Some believe the world, and humanity, is still capable of improving itself, but the endorsements for pessimism are often more persuasive At this week's memorial service for Eric Hobsbawm , who died last year aged 95, several speakers touched on the ... [Published Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Pascal Bruckner, Eric Hobsbawm, Global Warming/Climate Change, Ian Jack, Billy Wilder

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

Dead White Reds

Matt Karp in Jacobin: “The tradition of all the dead generations,” Marx wrote a 150 years ago, “weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.” Today, with our politics trapped in capitalism’s endless fugue state, the nightmare that troubled ... [Published 3quarksdaily - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Irving Howe, Eric Hobsbawm, Ralph Miliband, Theodore Draper, Nightmare

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Should liberals feel nostalgia for the old-school left?

This article originally appeared on Jacobin. âThe tradition of all the dead generations,âÂ Marx wroteÂ 150 years ago, âweighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.â Today, with our politics trapped in capitalismâs endless fugue state, the nightmare ... [Published Salon - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Irving Howe, Eric Hobsbawm, Theodore Draper, Nightmare, Ralph Miliband

Quotes

The great historian of the industrial age, Eric Hobsbawm, remarked that, "with the democratisation of politics, power increasingly became theatre" . Our Food has taught us that improving science policy entails not merely the assembling of evidence, but the performance of different perspectives and...

The play is the thing: drama and food research | Tom Wakeford [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 01 2013]

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Nietzsche & Hayek, Gott in Himmel! [Published Power Line - May 16 2013]
Nietzsche & Hayek, Gott in Himmel! [Published Power Line - May 16 2013]
Conservatives and the Non-Triumph of Capitalism [Published Acton Commentary - May 16 2013]
Guest Post: A History of Equality [Published TVO.org - May 14 2013]
The Gallery's for turning: NPG steers to the Ri... [Published London Evening Standard - May 14 2013]
History is where the great battles of public li... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 12 2013]
The End of Us and Them [Published Daily Beast - May 10 2013]
The charade and the change [Published Pakistan Today - May 10 2013]
Our democratic debt to the Chartists [Published Morning Star Online - May 08 2013]
21:05 Political challenges that face Italian an... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 03 2013]
Letters: Political challenges that face Italian... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 03 2013]
How our Manichean world view is crumbling [Published BDlive - May 02 2013]
The play is the thing: drama and food research ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 01 2013]
Marking Eric Hobsbawm’s class [Published London Evening Standard - May 01 2013]
A day of celebration across the globe [Published Morning Star Online - May 01 2013]
Sarah Sands: Here's how David Cameron can conne... [Published London Evening Standard - Apr 30 2013]
In praise of … Giorgio Napolitano \| Editorial [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 28 2013]
Optimism is appealing, but pessimism, alarm and... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 26 2013]
Thoughts on Boston [Published Al Ahram - Apr 25 2013]
The New Statesman: A nursery of talent [Published New Statesman - Apr 25 2013]
18 February 1966: Ellington and Ella [Published New Statesman - Apr 25 2013]
Dead White Reds [Published 3quarksdaily - Apr 20 2013]
The art of surrendering your principles ... on ... [Published Morning Star Online - Apr 19 2013]
Should liberals feel nostalgia for the old-scho... [Published Salon - Apr 18 2013]
An empty passion for war [Published Aeon Magazine - Apr 18 2013]
Open Letter To The ABC About Its Censorship Of ... [Published Counter Currents - Apr 16 2013]
“The twots”: Letter from a would-be New Statesm... [Published New Statesman - Apr 16 2013]
Cabbages-and-kings [Published Hindustan Times - Apr 15 2013]
The League of the Militant Godless Strikes Back [Published Mail Online - Peter Hitchens - Apr 15 2013]
British Writers Say "Death to Israel" [Published Israel National News - Apr 15 2013]

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Nietzsche & Hayek, Gott in Himmel! [Published Power Line - May 16 2013] ( )We take this brief time out from our ongoing Obama scandal coverage for a detour in the intellectual fever swamps of the left, in particular a bizarre article out in the current issue of The Nation by Robin Corey, author of The Reactionary Mind: From ...
Nietzsche & Hayek, Gott in Himmel! [Published Power Line - May 16 2013] (Steven Hayward) We take this brief time out from our ongoing Obama scandal coverage for a detour in the intellectual fever swamps of the left, in particular a bizarre article out in the current issue of The Nation by Robin Corey, author of The Reactionary ...
In praise of … Giorgio Napolitano \| Editorial [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 28 2013] It is not just his own country but Europe that is now in debt for the Italian president's statesmanship Italy's president should have spent last week on a well-earned break after stepping down, aged 87. Instead, Giorgio Napolitano answered the call ...
Optimism is appealing, but pessimism, alarm and... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 26 2013] Some believe the world, and humanity, is still capable of improving itself, but the endorsements for pessimism are often more persuasive At this week's memorial service for Eric Hobsbawm , who died last year aged 95, several speakers touched on the ...
Dead White Reds [Published 3quarksdaily - Apr 20 2013] Matt Karp in Jacobin: “The tradition of all the dead generations,” Marx wrote a 150 years ago, “weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.” Today, with our politics trapped in capitalism’s endless fugue state, the nightmare that troubled ...