The Battle Against The Philistines Never Ceases
We need cultural critics who will still stand up for the best that has been thought and said in the world
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The ‘British Model’: Give Refugees Work
Alexander Betts and Paul Collier's "Refuge" is a work of politically engaged scholarship with both trenchant analysis and original solutions
A Holy Man In Harrow
The life of the poet and artist David Jones
Swiftian Satire Of Trumpland
Howard Jacobson's new novel is a brief but entertaining assault on Trump
Domesticity And The Divine
For Italians of the Renaissance, the home was a place of religious intimacy and contemplation
Anything Dennett Can Do, Scruton Does Meta
Two thinkers offer contrasting but complementary ways of thinking about human nature
A Sponger’s Ticket To The Finland Station
The irony of Lenin, Victor Sebestyan's biography reveals, is that he was profoundly bourgeois
A Man Of Words, Not Of Deeds
Alexis de Tocqueville: a mediocre minister but a memoirist of genius
A Diaspora Of Pain And Joy
The tale of two Jewish familes in Baghdad and Budapest
Coloured By His Emotions
Howard Hodgkin reduces portraiture to something more essential than physical form
Pinned Down At Last: The Dean Of English Satirists
John Stubbs's biography defends Jonathan Swift from charges of irreverence and misanthropy, and evokes the roughness of his times
A Holocaust Family Tragedy
The story of the only child suicide of the Holocaust