Crash Course
The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
In Search of Babylon
A British Museum exhibition will mix ancient artefacts with work inspired by the city of legend
Healey’s Bully Pulpit is Worth Revisiting
The memoirs of one of our most able and most cultivated politicians provide a useful reminder of the virtues of ordinary politics
Ditch the New Maths for Good Old Euclid
Every pupil should have the chance to learn from the neglected father of geometry
Drama Behind the Scenes
A Strange Eventful History by Michael Holroyd
Can Civilisation Last Forever?
We are all doomed, or so we are told - but it may not be true
Enduring Friendship
In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor by Charlotte Mosely
Writers, Visible and Invisible
Writers are hidden beings, says the winner of the 2008 PEN/Nabokov Lifetime Achievement Award
Decline and Fall Guys
As Georgia licks its wounds, a morally dubious industry has sprung up to churn out books celebrating the end of American global hegemony
A Suez Affair
The public and the private are always swirling around, in a fluid, ever-changing relationship
Betraying the State of Israel
Jews fail to understand anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism
Hadrian: Man, Hero, Husband, Lover, Emperor
The British Museum’s exhibition reassesses the great Roman, a complex figure who left a legacy of unique glory