Politics
Where have all the Orators gone?
Have mere words finally lost their power to move us?
Sharing the great American dream
The Upswing by Robert Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett
Between war and empire
Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings
Hail to the Chief (Part VI)
What will historians make of Donald Trump’s presidency? Graham Stewart discusses with Jeremy Black
Kitchen cabinet
Felipe Fernández-Armesto says MPs should pay their dues in the kitchen
The Coronavirus rebels in full
Backbenchers in the Tory party are gradually turning their private frustrations into rebel votes
Hajdúszoboszló on my mind
Tibor Fischer in Budapest muses on Hungary’s fractious political alliance
Can political biographies ever be any good?
Political memoirs can be essential, eye-popping reading if the subject is handled in the right way
Stephen Cohen: historian, polemicist and friend of Gorbachev
Cohen was a prophet of America’s decline
Understanding France’s newest terrorism
Lockdown interrupted terrorism, but the post-lockdown West is more permissive
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
