Podcast
Is it too late for Trump?
The Critic’s political and US editors discuss last night’s debate with Chris Buskirk, editor of American Greatness
Hail to the Chief (Part III)
Graham Stewart talks to Jeremy Black about how the power of the US president was exercised in the first half of the twentieth century, from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR
Are conservatives losing?
Conservative parties may be good at winning elections but have they lost the argument?
Hail to the Chief (Part II)
The American Civil War and the expansion of executive power
What’s the point of Tory Party Conference?
Corporate and expensive, has Tory Party Conference had its day?
Trump v Biden: what did we learn from the first presidential debate?
The Critic’s US editor spoke to the publisher and editor of American Greatness, Chris Buskirk
Whatever happened to the polymath?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic’s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the idea of the Renaissance Man
Can George Galloway keep Scotland British?
The Alliance 4 Unity is the wildcard in Scottish politics
Black’s History Week
The Critic’s new weekly podcast series, with Professor Jeremy Black
The Ruling Passion
Should former prime ministers gently fade away?
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
