The Enlightenment as reading project
This book is not a history of ideas, nor book history, nor cultural history, but something much more
Stanley Baldwin, unfairly vilified pragmatist
A leader of great personal qualities
The Pope’s African pilgrimage
Does the continent represent the future of Catholicism?
The Women Talk Back! judgement is a victory for inclusion
Female students deserve their own spaces
The truth about Knowsley
Britain’s media and political classes refuse to address the causes of the violent scenes in Liverpool
The meaning of Locke
A new book explores the English philosopher’s American afterlife
The case against the ECHR
Sunak must take on Strasbourg to uphold sovereignty and sound policy
Englishness with an aftertaste
The pleasures of cowpats
A study in radical rhetoric
We can disagree with Annie Ernaux’s politics while saying she deserves her Nobel Prize
Free speech: we should try it again
We must sweep aside today’s pervasive fearfulness. Instead we should feel free to offend — and not take offence when others treat us equally robustly
Bret Easton Ellis — the enfant terrible who finally grew up
How he at last lived up to his promise
Who will look after the kids?
Why should the State prioritise getting new mothers back to work above all else?
What future for Benin’s bronzes?
Proponents of repatriation of the remarkable sculptures have shown scant regard to Nigeria’s endemic corruption and the fate of bronzes already sent back to Africa
Back to reality
Objective truth is critically important. It is one of the greatest defences of our liberty
True Feminism has Never Been Tried, Comrade
Alexander Adams reviews Women Can’t Paint by Helen Gørrill
Boats and bombs
A Netflix winner, a Netflix disappointment and a classic American hero on Amazon Prime
Lost in the Moral Maze
What is kindness, and is it the highest of virtues?
The man who saved Italy’s art
The man, the schemes and the burglar-alarmed fortress that kept Italy’s artistic legacy away from German acquisition
The moment of truth
We need to be honest about the reality of the kill
Tip? Don’t bet on it
Stephen Pollard: he’s not the man the bookies fear
Mama mia!
Claudia Savage-Gore angsts about being interviewed on a chi-chi website
The brats who ruin brunch
Brunch provides the luxurious pleasure of a relaxed mid-morning meal until the ankle-biters arrive