The new televangelism
The best US television drama has a strong religious dimension
The wilder the party, the bigger the hangover
The post-Covid recovery is set to roar, but will surely bring inflation in its wake
How the British Army fought the IRA
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the British army’s thirty year deployment in Northern Ireland during The Troubles
Judge made disunion
The government needs to fix what the courts have done to the Union
The calamitous course of history
Reading Doom might not save us, but it leaves us with a better appreciation of the complex politics of catastrophe
Scare talk on steroids
The Democrats’ hyperbolic rhetoric about the return of Jim Crow laws risks derailing their voting rights legislation
Vanishing worlds
Round-up: what do these books tell us about literary culture in 2021?
The masses might stone you
My time as the first foreign broadcaster accredited to Mao’s China
Duchess of platitudes
The true tragedy of Meghan’s book will be the better writers left on the bench
Catholic tastes
Christopher Silvester on films of faith and the canonisation of three children’s divine visions
Hive minds
Plants, not hobbyists, are best for bees