United States
Badmission procedures (w/ Kittie Helmick)
Schools are more than resources to be distributed
Why are US troops in Syria?
It is time for them to go home
Princeton’s friend of the Iranian people
Reza Aslan’s flawed account is better than nothing
The art of the bad deal
How could the US have released Viktor Bout?
The curious cult of the friend of fascism
Ayn Rand’s vile philosophy was one of the crudest ever to be taken seriously, but attracts the devotion of fundamentalists for whom she could do no wrong
Are U.S. sports actually superior to ours?
Sport is another thing to confirm the notion of American exceptionalism
Prohibition by other means
Do rising alcohol prices indicate the good times really are over — or could they harbour our freedom?
The rise and fall of the China Question
Balance China realistically: let her overstretch and bleed
In America we trust
The best and worst of America’s civil religion displayed in the wake of 9/11
90 minutes a slave
Are re-enactments of the Underground Railroad culturally insensitive — or a tool to help America understand its history?
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
