Angelica Goodden
Napoleon’s Bête Noire
Mme de Staël’s works are once again being read, but she deserves to be remembered as a realist as well as a fabulist
Sketches By Bozzy
The youthful indiscretions of Johnson’s biographer
Revolutionary Roundabout
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea
The Brexit crunch approaches
Thorny issues remain unresolved as the transition period comes to a close. Yet the hurdles to a deal are not insurmountable
Meritocracy makes a new ruling class
Innovation has often come from hard work by unlettered people. But young progressives now seem to treat education as a proxy for virtue
Some black lives matter more than others
Black Lives Matter misses the point—we should highlight the progress we have made, not split society and trap ourselves in victimhood