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  • My secret life: on the benefits of secrecy

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on December 31, 2018March 12, 2019

    At the heart of The Secret Garden, the much-loved children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, in which a disagreeable orphan is transformed into a flourishing young girl, lies the protective power of secrecy.

    journalism, secrecy
  • Are we entering a new age of artistic censorship in Europe?

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on January 29, 2018March 11, 2019

    There is an uncomfortable moment in Ganesh Versus the Third Reich when the actors pause. The play, ostensibly about the Hindu deity travelling to Germany to reclaim the swastika, an ancient Sanskrit symbol, from the Nazis, comes to a halt as they remove their costumes—an elephant head and a SS armband—turn to face the audience, and ask: “Do we have the right to perform this?” None of the actors are Hindu or Jewish. Many have physical and mental disabilities but act the roles of Hitler and Josef Mengele, who tried to exterminate those similarly handicapped. Later, an actor drops out of character again, to accuse the crowd: “You’ve come to see some freak porn.

    journalism
  • Mourning in America

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on August 27, 2010October 10, 2010

    Article in the Spectator New York is in the grip of memorial mania In early 1991, the construction of a federal office building in lower Manhattan was halted after an unexpected discovery. Underneath the ground, …

    arts comment, Culture of death, journalism
  • Sense and sensitivity

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on September 7, 2002April 22, 2009

    Article in the Spectator Museums are restricting access to certain artefacts so as not to give offence. Read the

    journalism, museums, sacred objects
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