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
The illusion of normality in Nikopol
Determination and death on the front lines of Ukraine
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
After the Cass Review
Our elected politicians need more independence from partial lobbyists
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Failing universities
What has gone wrong in British higher education?
