Book Review
Strong, silent — but still box office gold
Clint Eastwood is as much a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon
The rise and fall of English Lit.
Oxford showed little enthusiasm for its national language and the literature that followed
Maker’s dozen
The buildings that forged Christian communities still powerfully impact them
Goethe, a man of ideas
Even to list the academic fields in which he was a pioneer is exhausting
Will “they” catch on?
Pronouns are far too interesting to be left to trans activists on either side
Lyrical wormholes into the past
A powerful evangelist for poetry, without a coherent proposition about English identity
A heavyweight companion for life
Music’s vast dismembered brocade enchants practitioners and listeners alike
Slaves’ descendants don’t deserve reparations
A new book fails to make a rational or moral case for reparations
England’s glory
On his return to Yorkshire, Len Hutton was dubbed a knight of the realm
The dirty secret of the Muslim world
The neglect of the history of Islamic slavery reflects a culture of American exceptionalism and a tradition of denial
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
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again