USA
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?
SHEAR Madness
Taking an Old Hickory switch to the dying academic historical profession
Women Can Be Cancelled, Too
Author Flannery O’Connor has returned from the dead to bring gender equality to cancel culture
The balance of power
Economics will be key in the looming new Cold War between the US and China
Britain’s George Floyd protesters exude the stench of humbug
The London demonstrators want to feel good without having to behave well
Palm Beach: The Island that resists death
Covid deaths were only five percent of New York’s
Nazi blueprint for postwar integration
How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union
Anti-China syndrome
Both US parties are seeking to be tough on Beijing — but at what cost?
Spring into bling
Post-pandemic life is a party
A very British crank
Bertrand Russell is almost too familiar a figure to be worth remembering
How Labour lost the “unlosable election”
With living standards in decline, the Tories won in 1992 against the odds. Will this next election be the same?
Restore the family to British social policy
Rakib’s Britain: The Left has betrayed its roots by ignoring the evils of family break-down
Rolling back into town
The world’s greatest band return to Liverpool — do they still have it?
Sex and Sanctity
There are wonders great and small in the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery
Boris brings up the rear
The prime minister is consistent only in his untidiness and unpreparedness
Dreamy spires
Oxford’s brilliant modern buildings
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century
The remarkable poise of Allison Bailey
Bailey has shown the strength of her character in the courtroom