Margot Lurie
The Banality of Hannah Arendt
A new biopic is shameless in its boosterism of the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem, whose dubious legacy should be given its proper context
Nourishment by the Gross
Big Brother is Lionel Shriver at her cold-eyed best; a nourishing helping of fearless, humane and sober prose
Elegy in the Nude
A new poem
The Appearance
A new poem
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?