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In this elegant, smallish book, just slightly larger than the Loeb Classic Library volumes, with left-hand-pages given over to Latin text,... Read More

The Western tradition has never been more appealingly portrayed than in Rembrandt’s 1653 painting “Aristotle with a Bust of... Read More

Afriend recently told me about his struggles at work, in a re-opened office. He was putting in long hours, but he perceived a pervasive... Read More

Oh, to be a cat! Who hasn’t had that thought, looking with admiration at a sweetly snoozing puss, its every need satisfied by an... Read More

My reading year in 2020 began with Christopher Caldwell’s brilliant book The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, and... Read More

After Harold Bloom died in ­October 2019, E. D. Hirsch told a story from the early 1960s, when they were assistant professors of English... Read More

Philosophy seems to be on a hiding to nothing. It has a 2,500-year history in the West and an extensive back-catalogue – of problems.... Read More

American decline has become a regular topic of conversation among those on the right. But why do nations fail? And what has caused this new... Read More

Who are children’s books written for? They should entertain children, of course, but the best books are enjoyable for adults to read... Read More

In the early and macabre days of coronavirus shutdowns, Edgar Allan Poe was trending. “The Masque of the Red Death,”... Read More

I’m blessed by the fact that I live almost smack-bang in the middle of old London, a pebble’s toe punt from St Paul’s... Read More

Hyperbole shrouds few topics in history so much as the human encounter with outer space. Astronauts are heroic pioneers, their missions... Read More

For centuries western culture has been permeated by the idea that humans are selfish creatures. That cynical image of humanity has been... Read More

I have a bit of a book problem. So far we haven’t gotten to the point where I need an intervention — although my... Read More

Jordan Peterson’s bestseller, 12 Rules For Life, calls itself “an antidote to chaos.” Frank... Read More

On October 20, 2011, the four-decade rule of Muammar Gaddafi came to a brutal end when Libyan rebels, supported by NATO bombers and Predator... Read More

John le Carré died at the age of eighty-nine last December, a good thirty years after the end of the Cold War that his spy novels... Read More

The Progressive Era was the first major period in American political development to feature, as a primary characteristic, the open and direct... Read More

Alan Taylor is one of America’s most distinguished historians. He is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor at the University of... Read More

“Before the war, it was said ‘the United States are,’  ” noted the late novelist and Civil War historian... Read More

“Germany declared war on Russia. Swimming lesson in the afternoon,” Franz Kafka famously wrote in his diary on Aug. 2, 1914.... Read More

Britain has had its share of politicians and statesmen who have been “vocal about their faith,” from the earnest, evangelical... Read More

After 12 years of fascism, six years of war, and the concentrated genocidal killing of the Holocaust, nationalism should have been... Read More

Imagine you have committed a crime. If you are up on your behavioural economics you will be hoping to have your case heard either early in... Read More

We are still a year away from the 50th anniversary of the famous burglary that added "Watergate" to everyone's political vocabulary. But... Read More

Ihave an American friend who loves reading, but is clueless about technology. The last time I visited him he was still using Internet... Read More

Richard Robinson, who took over his father’s magazine company, Scholastic, and transformed it into a behemoth in the children’s... Read More