Can Science Replace Religion In Our Lives?
That materialists and ministers struggle to justify morality shows there is still a place for Christianity in intellectual and public life
More Things in Heaven and Earth
In philosophical circles, it was once heresy to challenge Darwinian reductionism. That is now changing
For Her, It Was Always a Question of Honour
Two major biographies of Margaret Thatcher — one vivid and concise, the other magisterial — are essential reading for anyone who cares about the
Russia’s Teetering Toughman
Ben Judah's rich and thoughtful account of the Putin years charts a Russian political system continually manipulated by a wounded leader
Spurning Old Truths
The Taste of Ashes by Marci Shore is a history typical of a modern, intellectual "non-Jewish" Jew, which downplays the impact of the Holocaust
Death’s Heads
Christian Ingrao's analysis of university-educated SS members is dense but compelling, drawing blurred lines that demarcate good and evil
Hard Lessons of Afghan History
Two new histories of separate conflicts in Afghanistan show that both the Victorians and a young Churchill struggled at the North-Western Frontier
Reform, That You May Preserve
The Great Reform Bill of 1832 nearly sparked a revolution. Antonia Fraser's history tells the story with tremendous verve