In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes published an essay titled ‘Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren’, in which he anticipated how we would spend our time a hundred years ahead. Keynes ...

The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350’ at the National Gallery in London until 22 June is therefore trailblazing, as well as being ...

It’s a bit late now; we’re a third of the way through and there’s a lot more of this to come.’ A lot of what comes in William ...

But during the Great Purge he was arrested and tortured; he confessed to having worked undercover for Russia’s enemies and ...

Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age by Peter Brooks; On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays by Henry James (Edited by ...

Few people can have had more fun than Peter Lennon, working for an English newspaper in Paris. Lennon arrived in Paris from Dublin in approximately 1960, aged about twenty, and stayed for roughly ten ...

America, América is the by turns woeful, despairing and ironic tale of the USA’s sustained attempts to turn its southern ...

The money part is solid golden age. And, of course, now utterly vanished. Carter is from Ottawa, a sensible capital city of ...

There’s plenty wrong with rights, Nigel Biggar tells us, as some very powerful thinkers have been saying since the ‘rights of man and of the citizen’ first entered the lexicon of mass democratic ...

Once upon a time, an ambitious ruler concerned about a rising power on the other side of the globe decided to place a puppet king on a nearby throne in a country that was beautiful, rich in natural ...

The last decade was the most volatile in British politics since the introduction of universal suffrage. But to what extent was there a political realignment? Matthew Goodwin’s argument is that the ...