Commentary Five years ago in January, a pop singer called David Bowie died. From the scale of the ...

Commentary The publisher Jonathan Cape used to say that there were only two things you needed to know ...

Commentary It's a matter of speculation how far a person’s political opinions are determined by his temperament, his ...

Commentary Reading one of the first new presidential executive orders—titled “Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support ...

Commentary The only major country consistently to emerge with credit from the Olympic Games is India. It wins ...

At the beginning of January, 2020 (I was tempted to write “At the beginning of January, 2020 BC,” ...

Commentary A crisis is always an opportunity and whatever happens, someone benefits. John Maynard Keynes pointed out long ...

Commentary Several people of late have taken to ending their written communications to me with “Stay safe.” This ...

Commentary The new American Embassy in London is not, perhaps, the ugliest modern building in the world, but ...

Commentary When, a third of a century ago, I arrived in the town of Maiduguri, the capital of ...

Commentary One of the phrases in the mouth of managers or bureaucrats that indicates almost unfailingly that they ...

Commentary Under the present circumstances, when the possibilities of social life are somewhat limited, the circus division of ...

Commentary Sometimes a single case illuminates a whole subculture, as a flash of lightning lights up a landscape ...

Commentary A group of artists and architects has called upon the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New ...

Commentary Newly literate people tend to have a reverent attitude towards the printed page, for they suppose that ...

Commentary There is trouble in Guatemala again—though in truth there has always been trouble in Guatemala. Demonstrators set ...

Commentary The progressive lengthening, if not necessarily deepening, of education in North America and Western Europe has had ...

Commentary The announcement by Moderna of a vaccine against COVID-19 that is “95 per cent effective” understandably raises ...

Commentary From time to time Google invites or enjoins me to “celebrate” the 159th, the 118th, or some ...

Commentary There's a threat of creeping totalitarianism in Western societies that comes from health and climate activists. Who ...

Commentary Dr. Bandy Lee, the Yale forensic psychiatrist, recently compared Donald Trump somewhat unfavorably with Hitler, using a ...

Commentary The former leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has just been suspended from the political ...

Commentary Some countries never leave you when you leave them. They mark you in some indelible way. Among ...

Commentary We live in an age of bad temper. Perhaps we always did: it is just that I ...

Commentary “Past violence often leads to future violence,” said Dr. Bandy Lee in a recent interview with Salon ...

Commentary The mills of political correctness grind exceeding fine: Nothing is too unimportant to escape their grinding action. ...

Commentary A headline in the New York Times last Monday caught my eye. "Britain," it said, "operating without ...