Issue: December/January 2024
The humanity of Horace
The wisdom of someone who has lived a little is at the heart of the verse of the ancient poet who was adopted as the mascot of the Enlightenment
“Reputational risk” is rot
Business is obsessed by this pseudoscientific nonsense
From the Trojan War to conflict in Ukraine
Rich insights into eras of incessant bloodletting
The Committee of the Edwin Savage Society
What arouses such fascination in this obscure literary figure?
Time to ask “But what about the children?”
Not talking about the facts is counterproductive
France’s philosopher king
There is a jarring disconnect between Michel Houellebecq’s critiques of sexual liberation and his dissolute lifestyle
Weekends à la mode
Living Architecture is opening minds and changing taste
The baddies who don’t know they are
A process of dehumanisation enables the savagery unleashed during the October 7 pogrom
A radical right-wing trio
A new generation of radicals in France see their political mission as nothing less than saving European civilisation
Brought to book
Vexed by Insta videos and impressed by Venice
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
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 rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
The man who ended overreach
Lord Reed’s tenure as president of the Supreme Court has been admired by those who value the stability of the law
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place