Germany
Germany’s crisis of conscience
An unholy alliance of Berlin capitalists and intellectuals has disastrously misjudged the Ukraine war
The roots of Germany
Jeremy Black discusses German identity in the 700 years between Charlemagne and the Reformation
The German Reformation
Professor Jeremy Black discusses the effect that Martin Luther and the Reformation had on the German lands in the sixteenth century
It’s time to burst the red balloons
How did Europe’s wealthiest state come to finance the greatest tyrant of the 21st Century?
Hard times, hard truths
We must see beyond the myths surrounding the Ukraine crisis
A glorious flowering of difficult ideas
Two newly translated books evoke chapters of the divided and discarded history of Germany’s capital
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
The American who let the Nazis rebuild Germany
John McCloy freed Hitler’s favourite industrialists. Their firms still dominate the country’s economy
Notes on a doomed affair
Norman Lebrecht on how Marion von Weber was both interesting and important to Mahler’s emergence
Outcast of the angry generation
Mahler’s political journey from Baader-Meinhof terrorist to Holocaust denier illustrates Germany’s post-Hitler psychodrama
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
Go west
Rishi has been a bit down lately
After the Cass Review
Our elected politicians need more independence from partial lobbyists
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
