January 2020

‘In 2010, the smart people were either thrilled or alarmed by the prospect of an “emerging Democratic majority”, created by high immigration, de-industrialization and college education. Ten years on, influential magazines are still warning Republicans to play nice with a newly diverse electorate or go the way of the Whigs.’


Art January 1, 2020

Style on steroids: the power of Jerry Bruckheimer

Bruckheimer may think that the Oedipus Complex is a Greek shopping mall, but the set-ups of Bad Boys and Top Gun are classical

Will Lloyd

Art January 1, 2020

Bad feeling: why we need to defend freedom of reaction

People react differently to different things, and hooray for that

Mary Wakefield

Books January 1, 2020

Jung love

Savage Messiah: How Dr Jordan Peterson Is Saving Western Civilization by Jim Proser reviewed

Micah Mattix

Books January 1, 2020

The joy of rummaging through Gladstone’s annotated books

A visit to the Gladstone Library has the welcome effect of removing you from the worries and concerns of the world

Alexander Larman

Art January 1, 2020

Is he talking to us?

De Niro should live up to his movie characters and stop his knee-jerk dissing of Donald Trump

John Waters

Art January 1, 2020

All modern art is quite useless

The contemporary artist doesn’t expect to have to suffer for what he calls his art. Away with the garret!

Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Art January 1, 2020

The Hayes of our lives

A soul survivor whose sonic alchemy endures

Jacob Heilbrunn

Books January 1, 2020

George Eliot, radical but conservative

What other heroine in a 19th-century novel strangles her sister’s canary as a girl?

Kathy O’Shaughnessy

Books January 1, 2020

Kingdoms of the wicked

How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter reviewed

Conrad Black

Books January 1, 2020

Three’s company

The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes reviewed

Adam Begley

Art January 1, 2020

A hero for the Snowflake age

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is now a politically correct pantywaist

James Delingpole

Books January 1, 2020

The audacity of verse

The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside reviewed

Lucasta Miller