Features
The modernist who wanted to be Führer
Charles Saumarez Smith says we should acknowledge the Nazi past of architect Philip Johnson, not erase him
Through a glass, darkly
Nick Cohen on the ill-starred but seductive love affair between writers and alcohol
A kind of loving
Lincoln Allison is moved by a cache of his father’s wartime love letters and what they reveal about conflict, his parents’ relationship — and a huge generational chasm
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Bad times at the Grey Lady
Grand old warrior
Nigel Jones recalls the time he spent in the home of the legendary German writer Ernst Jünger
Association Football: A great game gone to rot
The sport is now characterised by the conditioned reflex of dishonesty, the bleating of the wronged
Mood music from the past
A confidential matter: the letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935
The New Keynesian inflation experiment
A post-pandemic surge in US asset prices has settled an old economics argument: boosting the money supply does lead to higher prices
Cheques and balances
John Self says that while writing has always been seen as a vocation, the characters many authors care most about are the ones printed on their royalty statements
Resurrect Reagan
In the wake of Trump, US conservatives must regain the moral high ground
