Friedrich Nietzsche
Stick to being a Hobbit
The right has been conditioned to fail, over decades and decades
Mad, genius?
A new book attempts to untangle a right-wing mystery
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers