Capitalising on Human Capital
Book review of Capital by John Lanchester
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Wise Beyond Her Years
Book review of The Innocents by Francesca Segal
Signs, Not Wonders
A retrospective of Damien Hirst’s work shows his skill as an aesthetic showman—but not as an artist
A Voice of Pure Gold
Kathleen Ferrier's wonderful career was cut short by her death at 41 in 1953. Thankfully plenty of the contralto's songs were committed to vinyl
Beware the Fausts of Neuroscience
Neuroscientists attempt to reduce the greatest aspects of human behaviour and existence to material Darwinism. We should be sceptical about their overblown claims
Paths to Democracy, Catholic and Secular
Setting the tone of Catholic political thought for three centuries, it is in France where one uncovers the roots of the separation of Church and State
Queen who Let Daylight in on Royal Magic
Book review of Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Anne Somerset
Trials of Windsor Life
Book review of The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney
Dodgy Medieval Dossiers
Book review of The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe by R. I. Moore
Men of Letters
Book reviews of The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Jenny Hartley and P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, edited by Sophie Ratcliffe
Prescribed Reading
Book review of You Can’t Read this Book by Nick Cohen
Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggars Both
Book reviews of Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters translated & edited by Michael Hofmann and Three Lives, a Biography of Stefan Zweig by Oliver Matuschek, translated by Allan Blunden