Dominic Green
Dr. Dominic Green is a Critic contributing editor and writes The Critic’s monthly “Green’s America” feature. The author of five books, he is a Wall Street Journal contributor, a columnist for the Washington Examiner and Jewish Chronicle, and a senior fellow at the Center for America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia PA) and the Center for American Culture and Ideas (Tucson AZ). He tweets at @DrDominicGreen
The correct answer to the Brexit 50p grammar war
Dominic Green gives his tuppence on the Brexit 50p comma debate
The year the music died
It was 40 years ago today: the magnificent swansong of rock and roll
The myth of Abbey Road
Abbey Road is less a cornerstone of the Beatles’ legend than its tombstone
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
