Magazine

The madness of crowds

Andrew Doyle has been warning about Critical Social Justice for years, and he kept the receipts

Anglican age of a thousand churches

The Church of England offered a necessary bulwark against the tempests of change

A mission to explain

Businesses must be more transparent if they are to win the trust of a sceptical public

Princeton’s friend of the Iranian people

Reza Aslan’s flawed account is better than nothing

A magisterial study of war and strategy

Jeremy Black deals a fatal blow to Napoleon’s reputation as a military genius

Running the rule over ages of empire

A quietly devastating rebuttal to the cruder anti-imperialist critiques of our superficially revolutionary times

Egypt’s secret Nazi brains trust

After a humiliating defeat in the war over Israel, the Egyptians wanted revenge

Unlikely auteur of mercy

Dan Hitchens makes the case for film director Shane Meadows as a genius of Christian art

The feud that felled the Roman Republic

The personal differences between Caesar and Cato mattered

The forgotten heroes of the Fourth Plinth

A thoughtful artwork that highlights the complex history of anti-colonalism in Africa