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Lebanon's celebration of a brutal killer's release illustrates the extent - and the limitations - of Hizbullah's power
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The Unfinished Journey of Lionel Trilling
Until recently, it was assumed that Trilling had written only one long fiction, The Middle of the Journey (1947). Now, thanks to Geraldine Murphy we know that Trilling was a third of
The Darwinian Delusion
Science makes no sense from an evolutionary standpoint, so why have we done it – and why do we continue to do it?
Democrats v Autocrats
The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
The Koran: Scrutinising the Inscrutable
Each new translation of Islam’s most sacred text offers fresh insights into its meaning. Yet there are still surprises in a book that is not only hard to read, but hard to
Empire of the Bun
The Hamburger: A History by Josh Ozersky
Long Night of the Red Star
Jung Chang and her husband Jon Halliday are leading authorities on Mao, while Simon Sebag Montefiore has published two major works on Stalin. With Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson, they discuss the two
As English as Warm Beer
I could not consent to the introduction into our national life of a device so alien to all our traditions as the referendum,” Clement Attlee told Winston Churchill in May 1945, “which