Book Review
A window into the medieval mind
Heaven on Earth captures the extraordinary efflorescence of Gothic architecture in Europe
The man who tamed the Russian bear
Statesmen confronted a stupefying cacophony of crises in the 1980s
How to avoid the Third World War
Tucker marries an English School insight with the thought of two giants of philosophy
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
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.
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling