Alexis de Tocqueville
Will TikTok take to Tocqueville?
Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun
Frustrating life of a man of ideas
We remain interested in Tocqueville because of the power of his thought, not his life story
Fear, loathing and revolution
Was Alexis de Tocqueville the first social scientist?
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
Let’s change the cultural meaning of the penis
Our genitals do not entitle us to anything
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
The West needs more decisive diplomacy
Diplomatic vacillation is enabling the spread of armed conflict
Taking Pride
If sexual orientation is not a choice and therefore nothing to be ashamed of, then it can be nothing to be proud of either
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
The campaign against National Conservatism is a disgrace
A peaceful conference is facing state and activist intimidation
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air