Nazis
An underground war
This history of resistance in the Second World War is as moving as it is comprehensive
Metamorphosen (Chandos)
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London reinterpret Metamorphosen chillingly as elegy
He got out alive
From Belsen concentration camp to eminent British sculptor
The dying days of Nazi Germany
A growing body of literature deals with the horrors of WWII from a German point of view
Forgotten films
Streaming services contain a wealth of overlooked foreign-language war stories
The Austrian solution
Mandating vaccination by criminal sanction may sound draconian, but then again Austria has historic form for this sort of thing
Paul Hindemith: Mathis symphony (Naxos), Clarinet concerto (Orfeo)
When asked “which Hindemith should I try first?”, I’m lost for an answer
The American who let the Nazis rebuild Germany
John McCloy freed Hitler’s favourite industrialists. Their firms still dominate the country’s economy
The Battle of Britain was not won by the Few
We credit pluck for what we really owe to imperial and industrial might
Sweetening the Covid Kool-Aid
Incentivising vaccination calls medical ethics into question
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
The Saad facts
A spirited but disappointing screed against wokeness
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
