Book Review
The British empire, for good and ill
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning offers the first serious counterblast against the hysterical orthodoxy
Rebadging the past as feel-good therapy
The discipline faces not so much a crisis of history, as a crisis of historicism
Two portraits of troubled art scholars
A pair of debut novels revive the serious business of art history
The roots of U.S. support for Israel
Walter Russell Mead offers a counterblast to claims of a pro-Israel lobby influencing US politics
The bank that grew fat on cocaine
Bespoke wealth management services were made available to some of the world’s nastiest criminals
Building a new world on the ruins of the old
After all this drama, what kind of England ultimately emerged?
Militantly waiting for the end of time
Sunni or Shia, Muslim or Christian, modern or pre-modern — messianism retains a potent attraction
Time doesn’t fly in Bianchini’s company
Heilbron writes with authority and – what is more unusual – genuine passion
The Enlightenment as reading project
This book is not a history of ideas, nor book history, nor cultural history, but something much more
The meaning of Locke
A new book explores the English philosopher’s American afterlife
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
Put the money back into politics
Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
The final lap
Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Miserable managerialism at Magdalen
Gimmicky stakeholder management is failing the spirit of the university
