Issue No.
44
April 2011
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| Welcome to April’s review of books |
 Tim Black
You can’t open a newspaper or browse the shelf of a bookshop these days without encountering the word ‘neo-liberalism’. In an irony that would have put a grin on Hayek’s face, attacking ‘neo-liberalism’ has become a rather big business, with the emergence of money-raking, bestselling tomes telling us that bankers are evil and we live in an ‘Age of Greed’. But what is ‘neo-liberalism’, asks Daniel Ben-Ami in this month’s spiked review of books? He finds the term wanting indeed, and argues that those who use it - the radicals who frequently lay in to free-market fundamentalism - are actually Malthusians in disguise with very low horizons for humanity. We also have Neil Davenport on why a 60-year-old novel about Nazi Germany is rattling Europe’s contemporary cultural elite; Patrick Hayes on the latest wheeze for restricting migrants’ freedom of movement; Nathalie Rothschild on how the Oslo Peace Accords made Palestinians’ lives even harder; and much more. Enjoy! [Cover illustration by Jan Bowman.] |
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