Posthumous Wisdom
A prodigious command of English, ingenious playfulness, an obsessive eye for detail: David Foster Wallace's essays trump his novels
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
A Tragic Loss of Artistic Talent
Mirabel and Hugh Cecil's In Search of Rex Whistler is a fine tribute to a major artist cut down in his prime
The Artistic Legacy of the Great War
The global impact of World War I changed the arts forever. Its effects are still felt a century later
Nations United in Hypocrisy
The UN general general assembly displays the limits of multilateralism as the debate on the Palestinians' observer status showed
Kultur Shock
‘Journalists discussed the prospective disappearance of their newspapers as if they were watching their own funeral but not quite believing their eyes’
The Socialism of Fools
A discussion of Jews, the Left and the new anti-Semitism
Welcome to Obama’s Parallel Universe
Until Republicans convince voters that strong foreign policy is crucial to national security, America’s decline will continue
Why the West Can’t Do Business With Iran
Obama persists in trying to talk to a regime whose “sacred cause” is to replace a US-led world order with an Islamic one
Keynesians Fear the US Fiscal Cliff. I don’t
The conventional wisdom on fiscal policy doesn’t add up. A glance at the data and one realises that the media panic is unjustified
Writing and Rewriting the Bible in the Time of Jesus
Both Christians and Jews can learn from the reconstruction of the process by which unified scriptures emerged from diversity
We Can Have a Free Press and Justice Too
The real threat to liberty is not Leveson but the Coalition’s own Defamation Bill—yet it is not too late to make a sensible amendment
Calling All Christians: Prepare For Exile
The Church need not adopt the latest secular values in order to bring the Gospel to bear on contemporary culture