Evil
The baddies who don’t know they are
A process of dehumanisation enables the savagery unleashed during the October 7 pogrom
The true darkness of classic crime
It was more authentic than its “gritty” successors
What to do about Evil
How was Damien Bendall free to kill?
Against mere negativity
Politics needs a vision of the Good
Grappling with evil
Historians are better placed to explain malicious acts than philosophers, who strive to subordinate them to reason
The courage to defeat Evil
Why are people fighting a long-dead slave trade rather than resisting the triumph of a real one?
Making sense of evil
Forced to flee her native Germany, Hannah Arendt is finally celebrated there in a major exhibition
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
How long can Ireland’s gender equality hold?
A gender divide in voting is not as clear as in other countries — but that could change
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
