Magnificent Man’s Flying Machines
Leonardo da Vinci is justly celebrated as an artist, but his scientific inventions did not work
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Blurred Visionary
Gerhard Richter’s distinctive and diverse work is ultimately defined by its old-fashioned beauty
Inspiration for a Generation
Anthony Miles, Britain's first chess grandmaster, died ten years ago this November, but not before his talents sparked a UK chess boom
The Anti-Elitist Elite Versus the Underclass
The writer and former Tory minister and the political commentator discuss the genesis of the riots with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson
“At last, I feel proud to be Libyan”
Under Gaddafi, Libya was plagued by xenophobic attacks. But now its citizens are reveling in their new-found racial freedom
Continental Philosophies
Review of The Appointment by Herta Müller; Perlmann's Silence by Pascal Mercier; and The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Fornication’s Early Years
Review of Rome by Robert Hughes
God Does More Than Make Us Tick
Review of The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks
Democratic Disenchantment
Book review of Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-century Europe by Jan-Werner Müller
Pevsner’s Monument
Nikolaus Pevsner was the man who catalogued England. His project is well worth another read
Liberated Libya
Libya will not be another Iraq. The doom-mongers in the Western media would be wise to focus on Libya's massive business potential
Stott’s Gospel
Dishonest and distasteful journalists have co-opted the late, great evangelical Reverend for their own, secular causes