John O'Sullivan
president of the Danube Institute in Budapest and a senior fellow of the National Review Institute. He was editor of The National Interest from 2003 to 2005.
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try and subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
The Just Stop Oil sentences were just
Direct action protestors are not immune from the operation of the law
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
Losing the battle, losing the war
The most pernicious effect of aligning art with political activism is that the distinction between the two is lost
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
Are private schools worth it?
Parental background has a bigger impact than education
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
A guide to British electoral vocabulary
From “adviser” to “woman”, here is what it really means
The slain in Spain, and Belfast again
This police drama tidies up loose ends just enough, but still leaves the viewers wanting more