A society without faith is like one without art, beauty or grace, and no society without faith can endure for long

A new short story

"One Elephant, Two Elephant" and four other new poems

The pessimists are lining up to announce the fall of the West and above all of the US. But the Americans will prove them wrong

The debate over whether Oxford university's Hanseatic scholarships were paid for by Nazi profiteering continues. Two eminent academics put forward their cases

9/11 — In memoriam: A new poem

From a fragment of an ancient manuscript recently discovered in the ruins of Los Angeles. Edited by Clive James

A new short story

A new short story

Pope Benedict XVI champions Evangelical Catholicism, a dynamic concept of faith in the line of Leo XIII and John Paul II, which challenges the West's current understanding of the relationship between church and state