Books
Missing a slam dunk
Cleopatra is not a terrible movie, but this failed Hollywood history is
A stirring tale of delicious complexity
From the Mongols’ conquest of Persia to their defeat by the Mamluks
Unstable foundations
The unsound architecture of the Edwardian Baroque
Murders for August
Classics resurrected and new bodies laid to rest
Why central Europe has always mattered
Globalism is nothing new
A brilliant biography of an elusive genius
Spinoza may be the master thinker to whom we owe modernity itself
Who’s afraid of UPF? (Part 2)
Bad science is hard to swallow
Who’s afraid of UPF? (Part 1)
The ultra-processed food scare is a backwards step for science
Bastards of the fleet
David Grann writes the definitive tale of the Wager’s descent into madness
Liberalism’s obituarist
John Gray extends his dark critique of the modern world