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
Professionalism is a two-way street
The lobby’s mysterious lack of solidarity with Nadine White
The Road and the fork-tongue rogues
Minoo Dinshaw fills in the gaps in an official guide to Scottish history
Take a leaf out of sport’s book
Music has lost its unpredictability, its thrilling fear while sport’s passion shines, says Norman Lebrecht
Did Gaullism save France?
Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the French experience from the liberation of 1944 through to the student unrest of 1968
The Polish perspective
Why has the history of Poland, what was a large country, an important economy and an interesting polity, been marginalised by historians?
The trans rights that trump all
Julie Bindel and Melanie Newman say women’s rights were not considered in legislation that allows trans people to effectively decide their own gender
Three days that shamed the world
Janine di Giovanni on the profoundly moving Oscar-nominated film that is teaching young Bosnian Serbs about the awful truth of the Srebrenica massacre
Love, fame, power: the false allure of the celebrity politician
To truly achieve celebrity status and win a place in the nation’s affections you have to give up your political ambitions – just look at Ed Balls
Denounce Black Peter – or else!
How a London loneliness charity excluded an old man for not conforming to its anti-racist agenda
Letter from Washington: This is Matt. Don’t be like Matt
Are Republicans serious?