Uncharitable Act
Britain's claim to be the world's foremost philanthropic nation is under threat under George Osborne's new reforms
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Novel Idea
A new online scheme is taking publishing back to its roots, bringing authors closer to their readerships
German Hysteria
‘In Germany, whether it’s a matter of beansprouts or nuclear power plants, moral superiority can quickly turn into self-centred hysteria’
The Erotic Inferno
Book review of Dante in Love by A.N. Wilson
A Life Less Ordinary
Book review of G.K. Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker
Ode to Joyce
Book review of James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker
Where the End of History Began
Francis Fukuyama is famous for something he did not say. The book which made him a household name in the early 1990s was entitled, a little too grandiosely, The End of History
Star-crossed Purposes
Book review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
In the Steps of the Spanish
Book reviews of Love: A Secret History by Simon May and All About Love by Lisa Appignanesi
Crossroads
Book review of A Pilgrim in Spain by Christopher Howse
Our Superman in Havana
The great man of letters was better at holding a debate than his drink
Interpenetration
The utopian Labour peer's new science of happiness is doing wonders for its inventor