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Blind Eye to the Evidence

Keith Lowe's attempt to blur the moral distinctions between Nazis and Jews makes Savage Continent as distasteful as it is misleading

May 29, 2012

Books·History

Could Picasso Draw Better than Raphael?

Comparing Pablo Picasso's drawings to those of the Old Masters reveals his failure to master the basics of draughtsmanship

May 29, 2012

Art·Critique

Mother Of All Jokes

Education does not disqualify women from having children, as Dr Lucy Worsley falsely claims; a grounding in the humanities provides the best basis for motherhood

May 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Family

Fashion Victims

The dowdy wives of UK politicians could learn a thing or two from their fashion-forward foreign counterparts

May 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Modern Life·UK Politics

Strike Off the Band

Cowardly Irish folk band Dervish bows to leftist pressure not to play in Israel; now the Jewish state views Ireland as the most hostile member of the EU

May 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Ireland·Israel

Mass Protests

An exhibition at Lambeth Palace reveals how the modern cult of progress prevents its acolytes from appreciating the value of religion

May 29, 2012

Counterpoints·The Catholic Church·The Church of England

Victorian Bibliophiles

Dickens and Eliot may have longed for the 19th century equivalent of a Kindle, but they also knew when to judge a book by its cover

May 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Literature

Melancholia, Not Modernism

Edvard Munch may have yoked new technologies together but his leitmotifs were timeless

May 29, 2012

Art

Latvia’s Lost World

Jean-Paul Kaufmann's A Journey to Nowhere recounts how a student love affair led him to discover Courland, the Latvian peninsula with a troubled history and elusive identity

May 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Eastern Europe·Literature