A lost paradise of purity
Terror and transcendence in the late masterpieces of Schubert
Doubts and certainties
It has been a year of doubts and uncertainties: fluctuating infection and death rates, empty promises and political false starts, civil unrest, social injustice, abject diplomacy
Minds of their own
Contagious curiosity about the way consciousness works
Testing positivism
"The Murder of Professor Schlick" brilliantly illuminates an ambitious movement in philosophy
Twin terrors
Laurence Rees tries his best to cut through much of the mythology that infuses our collective memory of Hitler and Stalin
Quality not quantity
Those who call Kubrick the greatest director in the history of cinema really do have a point
The great communicator
Barack Obama was a political superstar who overcame astronomical odds, but he was also the product of a ruthlessly professional operation
Can we reverse the “long march”?
‘After a long time people are finally beginning to wake up to “the long march through the institutions”—the idea that left-wing “progressives” have to infiltrate public bodies in order to push through
The Great Trump War: Round Two
‘Despite unprecedented harassments, President Trump has had the most successful first term in US history except for Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon’
Black and Asian Britons should not be treated as a bloc
‘People do not vote as a bloc, and ethnic or racial groups—and often individuals within these groups—contain a multitude of political opinions’