Sharing the great American dream
The Upswing by Robert Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett
Good luck…
David Goodhart wishes The Critic every success
Who cares about the Channel crisis?
For the media and the Government, only one crisis is worth bothering with
Poop poop purchases
Thomas Woodham-Smith goes shopping for the dealer’s friend, a whale on wheels
Why we’re in the state we’re in
Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees
Who wants to rule forever?
Being in power a long time doesn’t guarantee you’ll get things done
The BBC can’t help taking sides
Planned Parenthood is a “rights groups”, pro-lifers want to deny “abortion care”
Khrushchev – shoe banger for a superpower
On the 50th anniversary of his death – what should we make of Nikita Khrushchev?
What’s it like to have a home? Part II
Decades later, I remembered my mother’s mental patients
Anatomy of a miserable deal
Barnier’s Secret Journal should interest British readers due to the insights on whether the UK could have negotiated a better deal
Richard Donner: an underrated director
Suggestions that Donner was a director-for-hire rather than a true auteur are harsh and inaccurate
Is the English Lit degree killing love for literature?
Alexander Larman and Graham Stewart discuss the direction of English Literature at universities