Richard Reinsch
Richard Reinsch is editor of the online journal Law & Liberty and is coauthor with Peter A. Lawler of A Constitution in Full: Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty (Kansas Press, 2019)
The making of Donald Trump
In his new book, Gerald Seib asks whether the turn towards nationalism and populism in the US is permanent
Decline of the sclerotic West
Richard Reinsch reviews The Decadent Society, by Ross Douthat
Why populism is popular
Richard Reinsch reviews The New Class War By Michael Lind
In defence of the US nation
Richard Reinsch reviews The Case for Nationalism by Rich Lowry
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism