David Green says the most vilified of American sociologists has emerged as one of the great champions of liberty, while his analysis of the underclass has been vindicated by events

The 17th-century Dean celebrated prosperity as well as poetry and felt no need to transform the Church into an agency of social work

The biographer of Dr Johnson's gift to posterity was to establish the latter as one of English literature's towering figures

Canada’s unsung Conservative prime minister is shaking up his country’s flabby political culture and standing up for freedom abroad