Book Review
The elephant in the avant-garde
The totalitarian trend in Modernism demands acknowledgement
The conservative case for socialism?
Sohrab Ahmari’s anti-business prescriptions fail to convince
The rise and rise of military history
A fine new landmark in the welcome renaissance of a timeless genre
Tenderness and truth
What should parents do about gender-nonconforming kids?
All aboard the ship of self-improvement
Why did NYU withdraw its support before the Floating University had left port?
The lives of Mary Magdalene
A fine book explores her life and afterlife
Effective affinities
Moral philosophy, the individual and the future
Liberalism’s lion
Christopher Hitchens remains unforgettable
All action, no abstraction
On the hunks and lunks who dominated two decades of Hollywood
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Crime thrillers 101
A new heist movie is basic and fun
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography