Conspiracy theorists may be easy to dismiss, but history shows that such myths often end in bloodshed

Douglas Murray refuses to mourn the death of the gay novel — a genre that was once ghettoised has joined the mainstream

Universities need to rescue the teaching of history from grip of woke ideologues

Daniel Johnson says Spanish imperialism left a legacy defying simplistic analysis

Why do Waugh’s political works remain either caricatured or ignored?

An erudite call to return to a more sceptical and prudential kind of politics

Firmin DeBrabander’s philosophical musings are the checklist of a left-wing, “progressive” academic

What insights can period dramas give us into the past?

In his new book, Gerald Seib asks whether the turn towards nationalism and populism in the US is permanent

Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic’s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the idea of the Renaissance Man