The Little Prince Of Queens
Joseph Cornell’s shadow boxes are poetic windows on the mind of a man with a restricted life
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Graduate Giving
'Alumni could be an integral part of saving European institutions of learning from becoming the Costa cafés of the academy'
Journo Listless
‘The image of the newspaperman as a suave but ballsy individual who, whisky in hand, wires copy to a smoke-filled newsroom is now incredibly remote’
History’s Greatest Ponzi Scheme
Politicians sat on their hands as the mighty American economy was sent to its doom. What is to be done to prevent a repeat?
Can the Atlantic Coalition Hold?
William Kristol, founder-editor of the leading American conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, and Tim Montgomerie, founder-editor of the ConservativeHome website, discuss the similar problems facing the US and Britain with Standpoint Editor
A New Voice for the American Right
The heir to Buckley, Kristol and Neuhaus, Robert George is the new leader of American intellectual conservatism
Political Classes
‘American academia is being swamped by the backwaters of identity politics’
Is the Obama Presidency Failing?
The administration is in deep trouble on healthcare and national security “What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them,” President Barack Obama declared in his inaugural
Montana: Home From Home on the Range
‘I look around the dimly-lit bar and notice how the hard-drinking clientele watches suspicious newcomers like me, with my British-tainted accent and far too many questions. I ask another one: “Do the
Entrenched Enemies
The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan
United States: The Path to Rome via San Francisco
‘In the 1950s, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene wrote triumphalist Catholic novels with miracles as part of the story — Brideshead Revisited, The End of the Affair. They were bestsellers. Since Vatican II,
Blown Up in Bin Laden Country
Is Pakistani intelligence allowing the country’s tribal areas to become a Taliban stronghold? What can the West do about it? The moment the bomb exploded, our Frontier Corps driver slammed on the