Did peace prevail in the World Wars thanks to providential deliverance, or just a number of very fortunate occurrences?

The Genetic Lottery is not the only book published this summer to tackle controversial topics in biology

Lucien veers between lamenting modern theatre’s disdain for “truly serious work” and suspecting that it all could have gone a great deal worse

A new book revisits the painter’s death and returns the verdict that it was suicide after all

Tirthankar Roy dismisses both nationalist tropes about evil colonialists and imperial assumptions of benevolent liberal intervention

Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories

The Critic Narrated: Episode One, with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Claudia Savage Gore and Jonathan Aitken

The Court of Appeal has ruled that there is no obligation on the State to allow the purchase of sex without criminal sanction

Real progress will require more than BBC telling its audience about cultural appropriation in a Brummie accent

The University College Union is hounding members out of their jobs for holding gender-critical views