Germany
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
Before the wall’s fall
Geopolitical maneuverings between the East and the West
The German disillusionment
Germans have lost faith in the political establishment
The strange death of liberal Germanophilia
Do the Germans “do it better”?
The need for nuclear
The best time to build a new nuclear plant was ten years ago. The second best time is now
Twin totems of Teutonic angst
The German obsession with Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The end of German stability?
Years of complacency has seen right wing populism surge in the holy land of centrism
The EU rule of law crisis
The UK should be paying more attention
Against the hysterical consensus
The US has to confront its own global identity
Max Beckmann in Munich
A harried artist between the classical and the modern
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
