Hearts and minds
Liberalism’s graveyard
Afghanistan is where ideologies go to die
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Don’t let it go
Communal singing is good for the soul
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
