Book Review
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
The lovelorn lady who broke the rules
A romantic forced by peculiar privilege into perpetual masquerade
Searching for a radical alternative
Two new titles join a burgeoning chorus of populist lament
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
Women MPs should be representing women’s interests
It was ludicrous to talk about microaggressions in the aftermath of an alkaline attack
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
