Coming to America
'Should we treat assimilation not as a taboo subject but as an opportunity?'
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Political Classes
‘American academia is being swamped by the backwaters of identity politics’
Concerning Frank Kermode
Britain's most distinguished literary critic, who turned 90 last year, has many achievements to be proud of. But does the indefatigable grand old man of EngLit ever regret his role in promoting
The New Sophistry
‘Entertaining the reader is now the main goal of criticism’
Eliot versus Hardy
Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot are the two greatest 20th-century poets in the English language, despite what they may have thought of one another. It is remarkable that the readers of Hardy's
What Would Keynes Say?
The most inflential economist of the 20th century still dominates debate about the financial crisis. His biographer Robert Skidelsky and Britain's leading monetarist Tim Congdon discuss the relevance of Keynes
Men on the Menu
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu
Taking Research for Granted
British universities need to become more like America’s if they want to keep the best scientists
A Strange Rush for the Exit
In a world where life appears to be getting better, why are we in the grip of a suicide epidemic?
Why Matter Really Matters
Firing neutrons under Japan may explain why the universe exists
I Think, Therefore I Am – An Individual
How the modern ideal of individuality can leave us adrift in a value-free world
Beacon of Liberty Amid Depression
Just over 70 years ago, a group of intellectuals met in Paris to revive liberalism. Their views have an eerie echo today