BOOKS
May 2013
Brendan Simms's new epic history of Europe is an earnest and old-fashioned of great power rivalries
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
May 2013
In attempting to answer his question Why Tolerate Religion, Chicago philosopher Brian Leiter wilfully neglects the impact of the Judaeo-Christian tradition on Western civilisation
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
May 2013
At times in Levels of Life, Julian Barnes at his dizzying best—it is writing from his informed, proud and devoted heart
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
May 2013
Underrated American author James Salter's latest novel, at its best, evokes Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Tolstoy
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
More Civilisation
More content
- Betraying the State of Israel
- Seeing Red
- Henry the First
- Qatar for Peace?
- ONLINE ONLY: How Not to Help Africa
- Army Dreamers
- Welcome to Miami
- Culture? Reach for the Remote
- Wireless: Curmudgeons of the World Unite
- Prisoners of Bad Conscience
- United States: The Path to Rome via San Francisco
- What Daddy Did in the War
- New York: Diary
- Samantha Power
- Get Hooked On Oily Fish — Or Else
- Obama's OK Abroad
- A Tragic Loss of Artistic Talent
- Voluntary Coercion
- Labor Omnia Vincit
- Noam Chomsky
Popular Standpoint topics
- Persecuted Muslims Who Love Life in England
- Reader Competition: Design the "Civilisation Cocktail"
- The Parable of the Stupid Samaritan
- A Managerial, Not a Creative, Crisis
- They Were the Future of the Tory Party, Once
- America's New Isolationists Are Endangering the West
- Underrated: Søren Kierkegaard
- The Beige of Beijing