Odesa is mostly Russian-speaking and sometimes thought to be more pro-Russian than other parts of Ukraine, but there ...

Behind this anti-establishment mood, which has rankled in British politics for many years now, lies the nastier ...

My goal was just to stay safe in Sudan. But I realised I wouldn’t have a chance to study and started thinking of Europe.’ His ...

T errence Malick ​ is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival appearances; he doesn’t feed us stories of what he was doing and why. For ...

Hayek had understood that persuading any society to accept the rigours of capitalist freedom was never going to be easy.

A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

Hugh Roberts has died from cancer at the age of 76. Among his books were a collection of penetrating articles ...

In March 1945, the classical music world in Paris split into warring camps after the premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s two-hour devotional suite for solo piano, Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus. The ...

In a less frequented corner of YouTube, the late Marxist philosopher G.A. Cohen lives on in a few comic skits. Among the funniest of these party pieces are two diatribes on ‘the German idea of freedom ...

Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments. Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as ...

On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband. But Jane Austen’s 1814 ...