North America
Lift The Fee Cap And Set Universities Free
British higher education could be the best in the world if the Tories follow the US model of private autonomy, not Europe’s statist model
The Little Prince Of Queens
Joseph Cornell’s shadow boxes are poetic windows on the mind of a man with a restricted life
Wrong And Hateful; Brave And Right
‘The depiction of Muhammad is a test case for the practice of Western freedoms’
The President Blinked — The Ayatollah Didn’t
Obama’s foreign policy has been defined by a failure to hold his ground against determined foes. The deal with Iran is his latest capitulation
The Many Faces Of Holocaust Denial
As the world honours the last survivors of the Shoah, it is time to tell the truth about post-war UK collaboration with Nazi perpetrators
My Five Husbands
A new short story by Joseph Epstein
Graduate Giving
‘Alumni could be an integral part of saving European institutions of learning from becoming the Costa cafés of the academy’
A Life Changing War
‘A few Muslim extremists have transformed the experience of travelling’
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’
On Yer Bike!
‘The US has been hoist on the petard of its own propaganda, its own vanity about itself being a “nation of immigrants”’
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