Michael Bentley
Michael Bentley is Emeritus Professor of Modern History in the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow in Historiography at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
He was right all along
Michael Bentley reviews The Englightenment that Failed by Jonathon Israel
The prophet who didn’t do people
Friedrich von Hayek became “Hayek”, a cardboard cut-out representation.
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right