Where Edward Hopper found isolation, George Bellows heard the hubbub of modern America

'After the elections in France and Greece the idea of Ed Miliband as prime minister is moving from late-night fear to probability'

‘In New York schools where they teach a core knowledge curriculum, some of the poorest children are discussing Shakespeare at four years old’

'Backward-leaning leftist populism is on the rise. All the old slogans of the 1980s  — "Tory scum" and so on — are making a return'