Podcast
The Critic Books Podcast: The Barn
The Barn is a history of the lives, landscapes, and lost ways of an old Yorkshire farm building
The Critic Books Podcast: George III
Graham Stewart and Andrew Roberts discuss the life and reign of Britain’s most misunderstood monarch
Is the myth of the “plucky Brit” false?
Professor Phillips O’Brien, Robert Hutton, and Graham Stewart discuss the British mindset during WWII
The American Civil War – could the South have won?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
