A troubled emperor
The French president faces a plethoraof problems from Brexit to beyond
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Chords and discords
Musical excellence can blunt the edge of political disputes
A criminal waste
‘Everyone knows about the code-crackers of GCHQ. But a far bigger pool of talent is underground: alienated young hackers tempted to the dark side, because they find no outlet for their skills
Alliances and dalliances
"The lethal combination of the Trump administration’s “America First” approach and many European members’ complacent, cowardly and stingy approach risks making Nato irrelevant"
A maestro of detail long before Leonardo
How Jan van Eyck changed the trajectory of Western art
A harness for history
Thomas Piketty is haunted by the failures of social democracy, but his own ideas for fixing society are far from novel
Dangerous tribes
A chilling, compulsive investigation into online extremist groups
Confronting a noxious new age of Jew-hate
Violence spawns from normalised bigotry. Effective Holocaust education must trace it to its origins and allow Jews to speak for themselves
A hunger for the truth
A film about the the Holodomor’s exposure should prompt debate on the famine-denialist Walter Duranty
A marriage of Brahms and Wagner
Before his journey into atonality, Schoenberg composed the surprisingly accessible "Verklärte Nacht"
Auschwitz’s antechamber
The point of departure for condemned French Jews was the banal banlieue of Drancy, outside Paris
A woke at the wheel of wonderful museums
If the country’s great collections are to be saved from the illogic of left-wing groupthink, we must find a new type of thinker