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The Long Shadow Of Malthus
The Reverend Malthus’s ideas have justified some of the greatest crimes in history
Beyond Obama: Advice To The Next President
The foreign policy of the last 15 years has been a disastrous oscillation between missionising and monkishness.
Salerno Diary
Finding solace in a corner of a foreign field
Saved From The Bonfire: The Tom Wolfe Papers
A visit to the Tom Wolfe papers at the New York Public Library reveals a writer who helps America make sense of itself
Liberty And Sovereignty
“The refusal to accept any domination of the Continent by one power has been the biggest British contribution to European peace and prosperity”
Art And Public Culture In The 1830s And Today
A lecture by Charles Saumarez Smith
The Casanova Of LaSalle Street
A new short story by Joseph Epstein
The Writer
A new short story
New Poetry
Three new poems.
Cartagena Poems
A sequence.
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts