Star-crossed Purposes
Book review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Being Is Believing
Book review of A Philosophical Retrospective: Facts, Values and Jewish Identity by Alan Montefiore Alan Montefiore has been continuously engaged in teaching, writing and promoting philosophy for over 50 years; and in
Philosophy as Confession
Book review of Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory by Stanley Cavell
The Public Doctrine of Maurice Cowling
The head of the Peterhouse historical school was concerned with finding a British national identity based on truth and Christian commitment
The State of the State
The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life by Kenneth Minogue
Mao’s Little Helpers
The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s by Richard Wolin
Hayek Top Slot Shock
In spite of his reputation, Glenn Beck is introducing huge audiences to high-brow political and economic ideas Television exposure can turn an unheard-of and undeserving book into a bestseller. But could even
It’s Not God Who Needs Saving – It’s Us
Instead of embarking on the project of "saving God" by replacing him with the natural and human shaped world, it is perhaps time to acknowledge that it is we ourselves that need
Can the Atlantic Coalition Hold?
William Kristol, founder-editor of the leading American conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, and Tim Montgomerie, founder-editor of the ConservativeHome website, discuss the similar problems facing the US and Britain with Standpoint Editor
California Dreaming
'Don't believe what they say about California: it is still the matrix for our civilisation'
A New Voice for the American Right
The heir to Buckley, Kristol and Neuhaus, Robert George is the new leader of American intellectual conservatism
Bad Case of Botulism
‘This is a cautionary tale about a deception so delicious yet so serious that it causes us to reconsider the impact of the public intellectual on our culture’