Anne Applebaum
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Medieval treasures of Germany
Aachen and the great temples of medieval Europe seem like vast spiritual power stations
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Dance with the devil
Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
