Cardinal Newman
The apostate saint
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.
Golden boy turned starstruck rube
The self-justifying self-portrait of a journalist who never made it
The Critic Books Podcast: Roaring Girls
The extraordinary lives of history’s unsung heroines
Payton’s place as an icon
Sweet dreams are made of this
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too
The curse of history
Campaign Diary: the war in Ukraine in context
A return, a reissue, a brilliant new voice
The best, and the not-so-great, new fiction to read this month
Music’s moral conscience
The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world
Is NATO to blame for the war in Ukraine?
Peter Hitchens and Adrian Pabst discuss NATO expansion and the tragic road to war in Eastern Europe
Why are we supporting Ukraine?
A cautionary note about vicarious war
It’s a flying shame
A travel editor gives up planes… for a year
Old Labour blues
Could the future of conservatism be on the left?