Book Review
In my ears and in my eyes
The Lyrics: the autobiography Paul McCartney never wrote
Thinking on inking
An intellectual tries — and fails — to find deep philosophical justifications for the modern wave of tattooing
The dying days of Nazi Germany
A growing body of literature deals with the horrors of WWII from a German point of view
To critique the critic
Harold Rosenberg’s mixed legacy counterbalanced both Communism and formalism
Could the US be heading towards civil war?
A crash course on the causes of modern civil wars
Move over Nigella, Nigel and Nadiya
The cookbook of the year was written by an elderly rogue and self-published
Dante, 700 years on
We, too, are exiled from Florence
The story of the people, by the people
What is History, Now? offers a passionate defence of the pluralism of historical study
Matters of fact in a post-truth world
The message of The Constitution of Knowledge is one of hope, as Rauch urges those who resent the censors to “unmute” themselves
A life indecently full of fun and games
This is not a journey you will find in most accounts of the twentieth century
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
