Books
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Eventful afterlife of a visionary genius
Unexpected bit players in Friedrich’s story set this endeavour apart from your average art biography
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
The generation game
Ultimately pro-natalist in tone, this book approaches millennial worries about parenthood with curiosity and kindness
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid