James Kirchick
James Kirchick is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age. He is at work on a history of gay Washington, DC. @jkirchick
The gay anti-Nazi brotherhood
In recognising the threat Hitler posed and swimming against the tide of public opinion, the glamour boys defied the stereotypes
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division