Saul Bellow
Is Saul Bellow Martin Amis’s true father?
Reviews of Martin Amis’s new book prove that the best questions are the ones that no one asks
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Why should young people join the Army?
It should hardly be surprising that recruitment and retention are too low
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Godfather of British geopolitics
The revolutionary global thinking of an Edwardian academic continues to shape attitudes today
Parenthood erased
We must not forget the fact that children are begotten and not created
The multi-matrixed revolutions
Predictions of a new Cold War understate the complexity of the future
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
Doomsday is not a day of the week
Sometimes, we dwell on tomorrow at the expense of eternity
The morality of altruism
People have a limitless capacity to convince themselves that what’s right coincides with what’s best for them