Reputations

Overrated

Oliver James

RICHARD D. NORTH

The author of Affluenza and the darling of the TV psychiatrist's couch is underchallenged

Underrated

Raymond Tallis

ANTHONY DANIELS

The philosopher-physician should be praised for swimming against the post-modernist current

Previous columns

Naomi Klein

KENDRA OKONSKI
May 2009

North America’s most fashionable anti-capitalist ignores the benefits of globalisation for those less privileged than herself

Terry Eagleton

DAVID WOMERSLEY
April 2009

This dull idealogue's quest - to debauch the intellectual currency of literary study - has had a lamentable influence

Samantha Power

ANONYMOUS
March 2009

Obama's Dublin-born foreign policy adviser doesn't like Israel and may wreck Hillary Clinton's work

Steve Hilton

ANONYMOUS
February 2009

David Cameron's closest adviser has become a liability rather than an asset

Noam Chomsky

OLIVER KAMM
January 2009

Oliver Kamm dissects the inconsistent ideas of the belligerent linguist and polemicist

Eric Hobsbawm

BRENDAN SIMMS
December 2008

Our 'national teddy bear' of an historian has got it wrong more times than he would like mentioned

Slavoj Žižek

JEREMY JENNINGS
November 2008

Jeremy Jennings dissects the work of the fashionable left-wing philosopher, who believes that Lenin, Stalin and Mao were too soft

Joe Biden

GERARD BAKER
October 2008

Barack Obama's running mate is vastly experienced in getting foreign policy decisions wrong

John Stuart Mill

ROGER KIMBALL
September 2008

Roger Kimball blames the revered advocate of 'experiments in living' for our inability to escape from the quagmire of moral nihilism

Edward Said

IBN WARRAQ
August 2008

Ibn Warraq indicts the Palestinian author of Orientalism for presenting the West as villains and Muslims as victims

Norman Foster

DAVID WATKIN
July 2008

Foster's buildings might better suit the sky than the earth, where ordinary mortals live

John le Carré

ANONYMOUS
June 2008

Anti-American sarcasm has crept into his work like a cancer, eating away at its integrity

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

BELLA THOMAS
May 2009

The courageous, Somali-born exile has rattled the Western liberal elite through her criticism of Islam, her former faith

Lionel Trilling

GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB
April 2009

America's greatest critic put moral imagination at the heart of his literary and social criticism

Charles Krauthammer

ANONYMOUS
March 2009

The liberal-turned-neocon has a knack of creating phrases which best describe the moment

Tim Montgomerie

ANONYMOUS
February 2009

The Tories should listen to the visionary behind ConservativeHome.com

Mary Midgley

ROGER SCRUTON
January 2009

Roger Scruton applauds a philosopher who seeks to make sense of the human condition

Jeremy Black

ANDREW ROBERTS
December 2008

Britain's most prolific historian remains generally ignored by the intelligentsia

Leszek Kolakowski

ROGER KIMBALL
November 2008

Roger Kimball finds it strange that the author of the most pertinent works on Marxism is so little known

Sarah Palin