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Academia
Father and son: the Herbert Read I knew
A filial memoir of Britain’s apostle of modernism in art
Piers Paul Read
Academia
Critique
Zero Sum Game
Is an aptitude for mathematics really an advantage?
Dominic Lawson
Academia
Chess
Overrated: A C Grayling
The hypocrisy of an academic atheist who chooses to play God
Michael Coren
Academia
Overrated
Misfortune Made the Man
The worst episode in Hugh Trevor-Roper’s career made him a better man
Paul Johnson
Academia
Books
The Letters Of Hugh Trevor-Roper
A new collection of the waspish historian's extensive correspondence, introduced by Alasdair Palmer
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Academia
History
Text
Feud Of The Cold Warriors
Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher were the best of foes, as David Caute’s compelling presentation of a decades-long intellectual sparring match shows
Robert Wistrich
Academia
Books
Uncritical Theorists Who Misread the Nazis
A new volume of reports by the Frankfurt School shows their number to be at best naive and at worst dangerously misinformed
Walter Laqueur
Academia
Books
Germany
History
Class Struggle in the Classroom
'In 1990, Hobsbawm embarrassedly asserted that nations are no longer "a feasible project" just when the nations of Eastern Europe, now free from Soviet Tyranny, reasserted themselves'
Steven Grosby
Academia
Features
History
Pride of the CUP
Cambridge University Press have just published a book by an anti-Zionist, anti-democratic Hegelian elitist. The reason? He has the right enemies
Michael Mosbacher
Academia
Counterpoints
Publishing
Academic Ideals
Amid the higher costs for university tuition online degree courses are gaining traction. Plato and Cicero would be turning in their grave
Joseph Loconte
Academia
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
Drawing Board