Where is America going, and what does it mean for the world
In this edition of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic’s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about America’s political and strategic options and what the mid-term elections have changed or clarified.
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What is the real reason for the season?
Why are we so obsessed with America?
Twitter, Musk and the corruption of the Internet
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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.
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Old-style literary agent
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
