Philosophy
Big Brother versus liberty
Firmin DeBrabander’s philosophical musings are the checklist of a left-wing, “progressive” academic
Making sense of evil
Forced to flee her native Germany, Hannah Arendt is finally celebrated there in a major exhibition
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
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
En rama drama
Spanish wine helps one escape the misery and damp of Britain
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
