Classicism
The triumph of the Classical
Modernism has failed and it is time to return to diligent study of the best of traditional architecture
Blueprint for a starchitect
Robert A. M. Stern’s approach to designing buildings combines exuberance with historicism
Manifesto for traditional elegance
Classicism’s enduring relevance and timeless appeal
Warfare in the classical world
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the nature of warfare in Ancient Greece and Rome
Classless Act
Gavin Stamp believed in what he saw. Roger Scruton saw what he believed in
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Not everyone should be in therapy
Over-medicalisation hurts the healthy and the suffering alike
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
