12/30/2025 - 12:02am

The CIA: patron of the arts The best Cold War critics were found in Foggy Bottom

Ryan Ruby

30.12

Why women hate Lena Dunham Hating her is its own micro-industry

Sarah Ditum

29.12

John Quincy Adams never stopped fighting His diaries reveal an anti-slavery obsession

William T. Vollmann

29.12

Will China win the AI race? The CCP does capitalism better than America

John Rapley

29.12

Why artists choose Catholicism A new book on converts explains Rome’s cool-factor

Valerie Stivers

29.12

The grooming gang scandal isn’t over Labour is looking the other way

Julie Bindel

28.12

Why should Britain rescue an enemy? El-Fattah release exposes Starmer’s moral emptiness

Sohrab Ahmari

27.12

How America went money mad William Gaddis invented our blank and empty world

Sam Kriss

27.12

What the King tells us about Britain Tradition and capital are uneasy partners

Terry Eagleton

26.12

Labour's bleak midwinter The Party has forgotten what it is for

Maurice Glasman

26.12

The Mystery of Britain’s Orthobros Why are young men flocking to the Eastern Church?

Cosmo Adair

26.12

Meet the bard of the Boxing Day hunt R.S. Surtrees used sport to dissect humanity’s foibles

Alexander Poots