Dreams for their Children
The rise of Kenya's middle class offers the country, and the whole continent, hope for the future
Don’t Write off America
It's fashionable to say the US is in terminal decline. Don't bet on it - still less wish for it
A Strange Rush for the Exit
In a world where life appears to be getting better, why are we in the grip of a suicide epidemic?
A Tale of Sadness and Forgetting
The Czech novelist Milan Kundera is accused of informing on an anti-communist as a student. Is there any truth in the charge?
A Joy For Ever
Beauty by Roger Scruton
Why Matter Really Matters
Firing neutrons under Japan may explain why the universe exists
Bad Beyond Imagination
Bernhard Schlink's novel, The Reader, is both artistically and morally fraudulent. The oscar-winning film that sprung from it is no better
Imaginary Islamist Think-Tanks
Extremists dub themselves 'Directors' of organisations that exist only in name, and the mainstream media swoons