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Schumann’s setting of Faust is an aesthetic and spiritual triumph—and can truly be called heavenly

Are human rights dependent on “human dignity”—and what does “human dignity” even mean?

When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Austrian writer Peter Handke—infamous for defending the regime of Slobodan Milošević—the world was astonished

Leonard Woolf had a logical mind, a lucid style, a rare honesty and a keen eye for cant. He was, after John Maynard Keynes, the most worldly, capable and impressive member of

Canada's election has exposed Justin Trudeau as one of the weakest and most ineffective leaders his country has ever known

Moors have become, in effect, unregulated farms. This dying terrain radiates extraordinary amounts of carbon dioxide

To produce a particular outcome from a Citizens’ Assembly, choose with care how you recruit to it, who you get to chair it, and who you allow to present their case to

Talk of hybrid war tends to overlook a simple reality: the Cold War may have technically ended, but the main authoritarian regimes born of it have retained their revolutionary essence

Britain’s greedy and cynical political class is colluding with our enemies

The Oxford police are busy with a hate crime: stickers that define “woman” as an “adult human female”