Issue: November 2022
Setting Soviet history straight
Would Hitler and Stalin have fought so hard over a city named Tsaritsyn?
Wanted: patron of high culture
Someone save Radio 3
Reconstructing a self-destructive life
One thing in Roth’s messy existence makes him worth our time: his writing
Tackling men’s problems
More male nurses may not be enough to fill an existential hole
The regal rise of le petit caporal
Napoleon believed his glorious destiny was to terminate the Revolution
A cupful of cash
Qatar 2022: tournament of shame
Studio: The history of Britain in maps
Maps are aids and images, means and messages
The YBAs in middle age
Where are the Young British Artists of Saatchi’s ‘Sensation’ now?
Hoorah for hurdles!
Celebrating the start of the jumps season
A world fit for humans
Both the internet and our real-world shared spaces must be improved
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
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense