There is a Victorian heft about Charles Taylor as a thinker – not just because his books are on a monumental scale that reminds you of someone like T. H. Green or Bernard Bosanquet, but also because, ...

A generation ago, Laurence Rees’s pathbreaking television series The Nazis: A warning from history changed public perceptions of the Nazi dictatorship. The image of an efficient political monolith in ...

A couple of years ago I attended a workshop in Fulda, a city right in the middle of Germany. To medievalists, it is best known as the resting place of St Boniface, the English missionary and ...

There has been a fair bit of controversy around the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC, particularly over issues of ...

that seem to stretch all sense of reason: ...

Samuel Eusebius Hudson tells us that he wrote too much, but that it was impossible for him to “allay the itch of scribbling”. A settler in the Cape in the early British period, which in 1795 followed ...

Daniel Butt (Letters, February 21) concedes one of my main points in his response to my earlier letter. He admits that it was right for West Germany to pay reparations for Nazi crimes, even though the ...

Towards the end of this brief, eclectic book, James C. Scott quotes disapprovingly the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky’s ...

It's not only on the President of the USA that questions have landed about the accuracy of his public statements (whether ...

The opening sequence of Kev Lambert’s May Our Joy Endure signals the novel’s intent. Lambert devotes whole pages of prose to the sights, sounds and smells, and the inner lives of guests, at a decadent ...

According to one outline narrative of British literary history, lyric had displaced epic as the dominant poetic genre by the early nineteenth century. Out with “Man’s First Disobedience”, “Arms, and ...