Enjoy the analysis, ignore the advice
Piketty's commitment to rational informed debate is laudable, but his remedies for inequality are not
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
1948 and All That
Three new books on the Israel-Palestine conflict
1,001 nights on the Tigris
A truly splendid work of erudition, storytelling and humanity
Capital in the 19th Century
Osterhammel's 'The Transformation of the World' shows up the work of all-too-many other historians
The Age of the Warrior Poet
It is a remarkable fact that WW1 produced a distinctive brand of poetry, and poets, and WW2 nothing comparable
Scandinavia in slow motion
Karl Ove Knausgaard is a tedious chronicler of his own life
Civilisation: Do we know it when we see it? He did
The presenter the BBC chooses to remake Kenneth Clark's seminal series has a tough act to follow
Red Pawn
How chess became a tool of totalitarian Communism
Poet of Eternal Summer
Rupert Brooke deserves to be taken seriously
Here’s to the Bauble Makers
An exhibition of folk art at Tate Britain is a reminder of the human need for creation and tradition
Hitler Humour
Can Adolf Hitler ever really be a figure of fun?
Message in a Bottle
Roger Scruton’s Notes from Underground is a loving portrait of the beauty and desolation of Communist-era Prague Having known Roger Scruton for quite some time, I knew I was in for something