Modern Life

Despite the name, television drama The Sopranos has nothing to do with opera – or does it?

‘Without Gore Vidal we would never have known that Nancy Reagan was a full colonel in the KGB’

‘Seventies London was a great place to grow up. As the son of refugees, I say to the English: so long, and thanks for the language’

The Hamburger: A History by Josh Ozersky

We must pay for cathedrals of knowledge if scientists are to solve the great mysteries of the universe

Family courts are putting parents on trial for their children. Instead of helping to keep families together, these secretive tribunals are breaking them apart—often for trivial reasons

Most of us, thankfully, still have relatively little direct experience of violent crime, although everyone but the most sheltered now suffers death by a thousand anti-social cuts, and the implicit threat they carry.

The Left has lost its monopoly, but new political plays like Brenton’s Never So Good still reveal a tin ear for language

The ‘death of God’ need not mean an end to the culture he inspired

‘To defend and celebrate Western civilisation is not merely desirable; it is imperative’