The origin story of the American moral vacuum
Bad Times at the El Royale reviewed
Life ’n’ Arts Podcast: History and ‘isms’ with David Pryce-Jones
‘I think the common theme in everything that I’ve done, really, is: what makes people believe the extraordinary things they do believe?’
More fake news on Brexit from the New York Times
Stephen Castle has painted a picture of a Britain in panic based off a Facebook group of 1,200 people
Will the royal baby be an American?
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are delighted to confirm to the public that it All Works Down There
Writers’ lives do not make good movies
Colette reviewed
For Max Boot, the road from Baghdad leads to the road to Damascus
Boot socks the Republicans and dips a toe among the Democrats, but can he find a footing?
Gandhi on Hitler: ‘I do not believe him to be as bad as he is portrayed’
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World: 1914–1948 by Ramachandra Guha reviewed
The hipster art-incest of Private Life
Private Life reviewed
‘Don’t quote me. They would kill me’: A professor speaks about Brett Kavanaugh and #MeToo at Harvard
Is the Harvard Law campaign against Brett Kavanaugh opening the door to an inquisition that could lay waste to its senior faculty?
Puritanism vs Pornography, and the agony of America
‘Tell ‘em Lindsey sent you!’ he squeaked, offering himself up like a human sacrifice on the altar of entertainment
Was Theresa May attacking Trump, or a blond populist closer to home?
The Prime Minister’s UN gambit exposes her as an unreliable, unsuitable partner
Life ‘n’ Arts Podcast: Knight of the Living Philosophers
In conversation with Roger Scruton
Brett Kavanaugh is not right for the Supreme Court
I believe her
No-one comes off well in the Allen-Farrow family drama
We could believe either Allen’s version or Farrow’s, but that would get us no closer to the truth, because neither is trustworthy and both are proven fantasists
The trouble with American universities: I talk to Jamie Kirchick
Life’n’Arts podcast with the Brookings Institute fellow running for a seat on Yale’s board
Big Jay McNeely brought joy to millions with his music
The legendary tenor saxophonist died last weekend aged 91
Boris Johnson summons the spirit of Churchill in Washington DC
‘The last thing we want is for us, the Brits, having made a momentous decision, to be drawn back into the tractor beam of Brussels.’
Selling Europe’s new Muslim vote
Electoral fraud in Botkyrka would have changed the result
Julia Salazar’s identity politics
There aren’t many situations in which identifying as a Jewish Latina immigrant socialist would give you a competitive advantage
Adolf Eichmann, the model of a modern mass murderer
Operation Finale reviewed
Who’s afraid of Steve Bannon?
Cancelling the former White House strategist might win back the respect of New Yorker readers — but it won’t help in their quest to explore ‘Ideas’
The Massachusetts primaries will tell a tale of two Democratic parties
The difference, as is invariably the case in American politics, is a matter of tone — not just skin colour, but also sex and generation, and generally in that order
