Issue: May 2021
The end of the road
Nick Cohen has adopted a new workout: wrestling with a novel
Like father, like son
Philip Larkin’s long association with Kingsley and Martin Amis resulted in the poet being misrepresented and misunderstood
Disunited States
A third of Americans now support the splitting up of the nation into like-minded countries independent of Washington
The enduring power of brief encounters
A trio of novels that are connected by their surprising manner of finding their way to us
Stop this fascist gaslighting
Without white progressives like me to supervise them, ethnic minorities are helpless and easily exploited
Broken eggs, no omelette
Baroness Williams believed until she died that comprehensive schools fostered equality. Her folly has only entrenched class privilege
Blue bloods and brownshirts
The intricate relationship between German aristocrats and Nazi Germany
Back to the wall
Despite the fact East Germany has disappeared, it continues to live on in this outstanding trilogy
An educational dystopia
Finland’s persistent myth and the reality of progressive education
Crypto-art for cryptomillions
Digital art: the millennial trend
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering