Underrated

The rule of the ancient King of Persia was more enlightened than the despots of today’s Islamic Republic of Iran

The death of this conservative Everyman and social media pioneer was shamefully ignored by the British media

The great French film director’s magnum opus, Shoah, brought home the reality of the Holocaust

David Green says the most vilified of American sociologists has emerged as one of the great champions of liberty, while his analysis of the underclass has been vindicated by events

The biographer of Dr Johnson’s gift to posterity was to establish the latter as one of English literature’s towering figures

Canada’s unsung Conservative prime minister is shaking up his country’s flabby political culture and standing up for freedom abroad

The iconoclastic doctor and writer whose diagnosis of the pathologies of the British underclass goes back decades has been thoroughly vindicated after England’s riots

One could question José Raúl Capablanca’s attitude, but not the Cuban conquistador’s craft

Daniel Johnson compares two sisters, one a vociferous campaigner against Israel, the other a towering figure in Judaeo-Christian thought