Ayatollah Khomeini
Inside the Iranian diaspora
How the US government and the FBI dealt with Sadeq Qotbzadeh and other opponents of Tehran in the time of the Shah
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James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
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The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument