Modernity
Can our duties set us free?
Jacob Phillips’ new book challenges the assumption that freedom lies in unconstraint
O blind new world
Behind modernity’s moralistic exhortations lies a cold-blooded mania for total control
God wake ye, Merry England
The decadence and excess of the city is of a piece with puritanical restraint
Antique business
Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world