Daniel Johnson

Daniel Johnson is founding editor of The Article. He tweets at @DanBJohnson

Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene

It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”

Rich insights into eras of incessant bloodletting

Few who sought to understand Hegel have got the gist of the Geist

A long overdue reassessment of the whiskered High Victorian statesmen whose fervent but nuanced nationalism did so much to forge modern Ireland

Spinoza may be the master thinker to whom we owe modernity itself

The German obsession with Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Hamlet

A new book breathes new life into historical fiction

Are books as physical objects already obsolescent?

The political journey of Paul Johnson, who renounced his socialist ideals to become a standard-bearer of the Right