American Dream
Justification by merit alone?
The American Dream is a national theology foundered on the rocks of race and meritocracy
Beast of Las Vegas
The first title in Yale University’s highly regarded “Jewish Lives” series to be devoted to a murderous scoundrel
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing