USA
In defence of conspiracy theories
Daniel Miller says conspiracy theories should be treated and judged like any theory
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?
The invention of the Trump-Russia conspiracy
New revelations implicate Hillary Clinton, Russian spies, and a British muckraker
Power plays
The Western powers should beware making belligerent threats they cannot back up
Would America be better with an NHS or Biden’s Medicaid plan?
Biden’s proposals will not lower the cost of American healthcare
Moral crusade – or extremist front?
Thousands have marched for Black Lives Matter without realising the movement’s revolutionary aims
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
America’s Popish Plot
The maze of lunacy surrounding one of the USA’s most outlandish conspiracy theories
Biden’s VP pick: safe choice or wise move?
What will Kamala Harris bring to the U.S. presidential elections?
Murders ranging widely
Jeremy Black recommends an array of crime fiction novels, both modern and classic, to keep you entertained in January
Bad law in a good cause
Who should determine Britain is trading with a genocidal regime – international judges? British judges? Or the British government?
Spare the rod
Spoiled beaks and free thought at Eton
The roaring boy Macbeth
Why Peter O’Toole’s 1980 performance at the Old Vic is remembered for all the wrong reasons
Is live music in Britain doomed?
It would be little short of a tragedy if our music industry ends up being finished off by the mismanagement of a a vulgar little virus
Shostakovich: Symphonies 9 and 10 (LSO Live)
In terms of sheer wealth of experience, few conductors can compare to Gianandrea Noseda
The life and loves of John Nash
Andy Friend provides a readable account of Nash’s life, but omits important detail about how the artist made others feel
“There’s trouble at t’lab”
Stuart Ritchie’s ‘Science Fictions’ reveals a scholar committed not only to his own discipline but to the wider principles underlying all intellectual endeavour
March 2021: Letters to the Editor
Robotic sex
All the news fit to post, two weeks early
It’s Christmas come early for Critic readers