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The Fate Of The West
A lecture by Daniel Johnson
Monks, Magi and Mosques: Religion on the Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network not only for trade in goods but also in culture, ideas and religions
The Rest Is Silence
— or, Stroking Her Feet to Opus 131. A new poem.
The Sacred And The Secular In Contemporary Art
“Can we understand public artistic experience by considering it analogous to going to church: the search for the sacred; for the questioning of the meaning of existence?”
Siege
A new poem
Regulating Markets In An Economy Without Angels
An inaugural lecture
Birth Mother
A new short story
Europe and the Nation State: Thoughts on Ortega y Gasset
A lecture in Madrid by Daniel Johnson
Seven New Poems
New poetry by Amy Barone
Rediscovering Our Moral Purpose
A speech by Jonathan Sacks, upon receiving the Templeton Prize
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal