Tube strikes aren’t socialist
Why do so many on the Left back poor quality public services?
The strange afterlife of New Atheism
The once dominant internet and media phenomenon has given way to more agile secularisms, but its legacy lives on
Apocalypse soon?
Civilisations always rise and fall — ours is no exception
It’s grim up north
Is the Northman alt-right propaganda? Perhaps, but it’s not the only one
Losing the generation game
The local elections reveal a bitter demographic conflict
Rod Dreher comes home
The conscience of the New World is here in the Old
The digital dirty war
Ukraine is partnering with Silicon Valley to digitally desecrate the dead
The victorious sign
What relationship should Christianity have with politics?
Queering Chesterton’s Wall
The Critic is moving in a new direction: every direction
The romance of nationalism
National Conservatives are reclaiming nationalism — but which nationalism?
Do we really need so many stage adaptations of novels?
There’s much that can go wrong when the drama of a book is transferred to the stage
Women should not be for sale
We must challenge the Left’s view of prostitution as “progressive” and “sex work” as liberating
New stories from a very old city
A history as brilliantly labyrinthine as the city it describes
Transports de joie
En route back to childhood at the Wallace Collection
Thinkers, writers and storytellers
Narrative, voice and good novels — not always at the same time
Ukraine’s patriotic master
The painter Ilya Repin straddled both Ukrainian and Russian cultures
The dead city
Romanticism rising from the rubble
The rise of the panic masters
Why today’s graduates want to stay at university forever
Musical scores
Great passages of play evoke great music
I spy a new clampdown
Will new laws to combat foreign espionage inhibit public interest journalism?
War of attrition
The conflict in Ukraine may yet end in stalemate