Politics

There Will Be Blood

Ideas

The English School

A defence of the centrality of history to  international relations

Ideas

The Opposite of Hatred

The afterlife of Christianity after the disappearance of religious belief

The C Word

American business has been striking a newly pious note, emphasising its duties towards customers, employees, suppliers, communities. Unsurprisingly, there is nothing about the state, or…

Muscular Contrarian

While Enoch Powell was undoubtedly moved by principles, and in his own words possessed of ‘a savage reliance on the workings of my own intellect’,…

World Politics

Made to Measure?

Data-gathering and metrics have come to rule modern medicine, with the results of the former often being sold on to the ‘medical-industrial complex’. Meanwhile real…

World Art / Culture

Directions to the Undiscovered Country

We may, rather prosaically, describe death as an adverse health outcome. Or we may prefer to think the deceased has gone on the way of…

World Politics

Literarily Hitler

The politicisation of everyday life is most typical of totalitarian regimes but every society in every age is susceptible. To politicise life is not to…

World Art / Culture

Before Babel

Nineteenth century linguistic scholarship led to the identification of a language family designated as ‘Indo-European’. The demonstration that ancient Western languages such as Latin or…

World Literature

What Is To Be Done?

The philosopher Slavoj Žižek challenges what he sees as a facile left-liberal consensus, asking how many immigrants from Islamic countries really want to be integrated…