Philosophy
Intellectual Red Bull
László Földényi’s essays are a collection that will leave you feeling sharp and more cultured, says Tibor Fischer
What did Roger Scruton and Christopher Hitchens have in common?
Douglas Murray on the personal debt he owes to the two men he considers his literary mentors
Defenders of a shared culture
Oliver Letwin compares and contrasts two conservative philosophers, the late Roger Scruton and Michael Oakeshott
Insight of a prolix pluralist
Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
He was right all along
Michael Bentley reviews The Englightenment that Failed by Jonathon Israel
The philosopher’s mind at its end
Sir Roger Scuton’s biographer on the last days of a giant
How I found God in A-Level politics
Christianity convinced me of its truth, but it scared me too
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
Vinous Valhalla
David Womersley reveres Roger Scruton on wine
A philosopher of deeds
Roger Scruton was a doer as well as a thinker
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
Miserable managerialism at Magdalen
Gimmicky stakeholder management is failing the spirit of the university
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
