Intelligence Spared
‘Europe’s intellectuals should get on with the job of helping to lift the continent out of its apparently endless crisis’
The Red Roots of Folk Music
Folk music has long been influenced by ultra-Left politics. Yet as the example of composer Cornelius Cardew has shown, even those with Communist sympathies
Durable Diplomatist
Book review of Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny by John Bew
Melodrama of a Manic Moralist
Book review of Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
The Greatest and Most Terrible
Book review of All Hell Let Loose: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
Moderation in (Almost) All
Book review of Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer
Magnificent Man’s Flying Machines
Leonardo da Vinci is justly celebrated as an artist, but his scientific inventions did not work
Blurred Visionary
Gerhard Richter’s distinctive and diverse work is ultimately defined by its old-fashioned beauty