Articles By Noel Malcolm
March 2013
Alan Ryan’s colossal new history of political thought is an ambitious but engaging piece of scholarship
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June 2012
God's Instruments is a coherent, elegant collection of essays that confirms Blair Worden as one of our finest historians of the English civil wars
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January/February 2012
Book review of The Wartime Journals by Hugh Trevor-Roper; edited by Richard Davenport-Hines
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July/August 2011
Book review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
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October 2010
The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life by Kenneth Minogue
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July/August 2010
Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
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March 2010
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
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January/February 2010
The Italian Inquisition by Christopher F. Black
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October 2009
Calvin by Bruce Gordon
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July/August 2009
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu
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May 2009
The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding by Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott
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March 2009
Beauty by Roger Scruton
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February 2009
Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell
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November 2008
The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
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October 2008
Moscow has accused the West of double standards, but the former Yugoslav province has a cast-iron case for independence - unlike the secessionists in Georgia
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September 2008
The verb "pop" comes from the nursery, and its purpose is to put us back there
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June 2008
Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West by Anthony Pagden
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About Noel Malcolm
Noel Malcolm is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and the author of Kosovo: A Short History, and Aspects of Hobbes. His edition of Hobbe's Leviathan is out now (OUP, 2012). He is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.
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