America
The new televangelism
The best US television drama has a strong religious dimension
Building a New Jerusalem in Idaho
R. J. Rushdoony’s followers have made more plausible than ever before his vision of the American future
A Midsummer Summer Night’s Meme
The customer is always right – especially in the realm of dreams
Sex selective abortions: Every woman’s right
No one who supports bans on sex selective abortions has the right to call themselves a feminist
The Silicon Valley English Dictionary
Twitter’s engineers agree that prejudice is hard-coded in our language
Pounding to nothing
Patrick Porter reviews The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton
Letter from Washington: The emptiness of Trump 2020
The President doesn’t know what his presidency is for
CHOP gets the chop
An experiment in self-government has been annexed by the United States of Amerikka
Letter from Washington: Albert Murray and the case for complexity
A dissenting opinion in a revolutionary moment
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
