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The West must restore a sense of the sacred

The New Nationalism in the US and Europe is not mere nostalgia. It is a renewal of purpose, offering hope, but it must be anchored in the Bible

November 27, 2017

Features

The Arabs need us to support democracy

Since the Arab Spring, authoritarian regimes are on the march. To discourage democrats is bad for the West as well as for their peoples

November 27, 2017

Features

Erratic Trump must get a grip or lose his allies

Unnerved by the US President, America’s friends are loosening their ties with Washington, leaving a vacuum for Russia and China to fill

November 27, 2017

Features

Conor Cruise O’Brien and an African tragedy

When the greatest living Irishman came to lecture in Cape Town, he had to defend free speech against the anti-apartheid boycott

November 27, 2017

Features

How the hate mob tried to silence me

When my article, ‘The Case for Colonialism’, appeared in an academic journal, a Maoist campaign to ostracise its editor and me erupted

November 27, 2017

Features

Laughter in the dark: ‘The Death of Stalin’

By making fun of pure evil, Armando Iannucci’s film has polarised opinion in Britain. But it deserves to be seen — especially in Russia

November 27, 2017

Features

Can rape and murder make beautiful art?

An exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, raises the question of depicting violence

November 27, 2017

Critique

Music New York

Photographing a city of buskers

November 27, 2017

Drawing Board

FDR, the President whom nobody knew

Robert Dallek's biography adds very little that is new to our knowledge of an almost totally inscrutable President

November 27, 2017

Books

Family saga in war and peace

The story of a family over two generations becomes embedded in the history of the 20th century in Mark Mazower's What You Did Not Tell

November 27, 2017

Books

Hopes and fears of all the years

The little town of Bethlehem has been irrevocably linked with Western visions of the Holy Land, but Nicholas Blincoe shows there is much more to its history

November 27, 2017

Books

Notes from the departure lounge

Robert McCrum's Every Third Thought asks: how, when, and where are we going after death?

November 27, 2017

Books

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