Homage to the Spanish
Book review of The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The Empire is Still Evil
Book review of Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West by Edward Lucas
Capitalising on Human Capital
Book review of Capital by John Lanchester
Wise Beyond Her Years
Book review of The Innocents by Francesca Segal
The Subject We’re Desperate to Avoid
Despite two shocking stories, the abortion debate has faded again
Time to Crunch the Numbers
'With only a couple of hundred fewer delegates than Romney, Santorum believes there's everything still to play for—especially in a race that has already had eight frontrunners'
Beware the Fausts of Neuroscience
Neuroscientists attempt to reduce the greatest aspects of human behaviour and existence to material Darwinism. We should be sceptical about their overblown claims
We’re Good Europeans Yet They All Hate Us
In 1953 Thomas Mann called “not for a German Europe, but a European Germany”. Now we have both—and neither is happy
Obama’s Timidity Risks the World’s Security
The President has eviscerated the US defence budget, and so threatens to deprive America of the means to use decisive force
How the Left Turned Against the Jews
Anti-Semitism has never been confined to the Right. Its latest manifestation is the left-wing campaign to undermine Israel
Universities Must Be Freed from Meddling
Britain’s seats of learning are coping with the new funding regime but are threatened by philistine regulators
Forget Wind: Time for Britain to Get Fracking
Blinded by climate change dogma, the government seems determined to play down the Lancashire shale gas bonanza