New York
Get woke, go broke: when cancel culture backfires
The attempted cancellation of James Levine came at a high price for New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
Met with disappointment: a quiet season for postmodern New York
Manhattan’s cultural landscape faces more tough times ahead with the cancellation of the Met’s 2020/2021 season
Start spreadin’ the news
New York will be poorer, cheaper and more violent for the foreseeable future
The ecstasy and the agony
Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife
American Tolstoy
Time to proclaim the greatness of Herman Wouk, once feted for the sweep of his historical novels
A brilliant life of ideas, insight and politics
Gertrude Himmelfarb: an intellectual giant who believed history could save us
High old time
Lisa Hilton finds Jason Atherton’s City eyrie flirty, sexy and a little bit louche
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
