Richard Davenport-Hines
Richard Davenport-Hines is a British historian and literary biographer.
The unmaking of the Athenaeum
The venerable club is being spoiled by ideology
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
The restless life of a very bourgois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation