Many thinkers have characterised modernity by its investment in the idea of pluralism, ‘of things being various’, in Louis MacNeice’s phrase. How do the virtues of plurality and difference fit with ...

Before the final yesterday I was puzzled as to why Jennifer Hudson was singing the US national anthem: did they think ...

Bad magic attracts bad money. Brion Gysin had a preternatural instinct for the fluctuations of the art market, ...

This concept of subjecthood soon applied in England’s infant colonies, including in America, where, after the Revolution, it ...

If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of ...

English identity is a funny business: we can be one thing to ourselves and something else to others, and that changes depending on mood and context. During this World Cup – and particularly when DR ...

Would the Founding Fathers recognise the modern United States as the republic they declared in 1776? The nation formed from Britain’s North American colonies has become the most powerful and ...

We may have mixed feelings about the title of Steven Spielberg’s new movie, Disclosure Day. Doesn’t it sound a bit legal? How close is ‘disclosure’ to its apparent synonyms ‘revelation’ and ‘exposure’ ...

My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a ...

French journalist and academic of Algerian descent. Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic was published in paperback in May 2026.

Nigel Farage is resigning as an MP to stand again for his seat in Clacton in a by-election, a move intended to stymie the ongoing parliamentary investigation into a £5 million donation he received ...

The hollowness of the RN revolution became clear this week, when Marine Le Pen announced she would be standing again to become France’s head of state, despite a criminal conviction for embezzlement ...