Guardians of our culture
Conservative America still vibrantly upholds the cause of Western civilisation
Germany’s crisis of conscience
An unholy alliance of Berlin capitalists and intellectuals has disastrously misjudged the Ukraine war
Going to the ends of the earth
A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific
The moral blindness of Putin’s generals
Russia’s murderous tactics to “de-Nazify” Ukraine have made its military leaders doppelgängers for the senior officers who executed Hitler’s evil plans
The joys of getting down with the grandkids
Campaigners for inter-generational justice miss the mark
Masterly study of sacred masterpieces
Embodied divinity
A glorious flowering of difficult ideas
Two newly translated books evoke chapters of the divided and discarded history of Germany’s capital
Grappling with evil
Historians are better placed to explain malicious acts than philosophers, who strive to subordinate them to reason
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
In praise of meritocracy
Grammar schools, Tony Crosland and the Encounter club