21 Jun 2023 - 1:03am

Despotism is a beast of capitalism Authoritarians thrive off our nihilistic wasteland

Terry Eagleton

14.03

How magicians are fighting Putin Those hexing Russia are part of a long tradition

Andrew Watts

24.09

The West has lost its roots The less moored our identities become, the louder we shout about them

Paul Kingsnorth

30.04

How the Nazis split Britain The diaries of two bisexual politicians reveal much about upper-class sympathies

John Lichfield

16.04

Mankind always needs a monster Our perpetual search for a villain is an attempt to absolve us of complicity

Tanya Gold

30.09

How paranoia drives politics Richard Evans's new book about conspiracy theories asks: who benefits when truth itself is unstable?

Daniel Kalder

15.09

Did the French Revolution cause Nazism? If Louis XVI had hung onto his throne, Europe wouldn't have been overrun by tyranny

John Lewis-Stempel

24.01

What unites the Nazis and Communists? It is well worth climbing the literary mountain that is Vasily Grossman's <i>Life and Fate</i>

Douglas Murray

04.11

The War was not Our Finest Hour We cherish the myths of a conflict we know almost nothing truthful about, and which broke us militarily and financially

Peter Hitchens

15.10

Who are you calling a dictator? When it comes to totalitarian excess, Trump and Boris are mere amateurs

Daniel Kalder

17.09

The history Putin doesn’t want you to hear The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland is still a touchstone issue – as the case of a Russian blogger found guilty of “rehabilitating Nazism” shows.

Roger Moorhouse