Return of the Dance of Death
Coronavirus may be sweeping the world but we’ve been here before
Boris’s Corona Catastrophe
An indolent, blustering prime minister surrounded by supine, vacuous incompetents
Reckless US faces a reckoning
Trump’s spending spree will mean sky-high inflation and interest rates
The problem with Adam, Eve and Steve
Is Polyamory really a progressive, feminist-friendly modus vivendi?
Good old New Society
It was a magazine whose influence extended beyond its readership
Beware of selling the family silver
The sale of dusty, unloved artworks offers museums a financial lifeline, but is fraught with danger
America’s licence to sell
Michael Prodger says deaccession has been given tacit approval abroad
The stab-in-the-back myth
Nick Cohen on the dangerous lie the Corbynite left copied from the Nazis
Nazi blueprint for postwar integration
How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union
Smuggling Plato to Prague
Edward Lucas pays tribute to his father J.R. Lucas, Oxford philosopher and Cold War champion of the Czechs
American Tolstoy
Time to proclaim the greatness of Herman Wouk, once feted for the sweep of his historical novels
Anti-China syndrome
Both US parties are seeking to be tough on Beijing — but at what cost?
The week the war ended
Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe