T errence Malick ​ is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival ...

My goal was just to stay safe in Sudan. But I realised I wouldn’t have a chance to study and started thinking of Europe.’ His ...

Odesa is mostly Russian-speaking and sometimes thought to be more pro-Russian than other parts of Ukraine, but there ...

Behind this anti-establishment mood, which has rankled in British politics for many years now, lies the nastier ...

A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments. Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as ...

Hugh Roberts has died from cancer at the age of 76. Among his books were a collection of penetrating articles ...

Hayek had understood that persuading any society to accept the rigours of capitalist freedom was never going to be easy.

It’s puzzling, unsettling even, to see ‘free speech’ rearing its head in public debate again, rousing passions which seemed long defunct. Wasn’t the doctrine definitively trumpeted by Milton and Locke ...

Steve Bannon doesn’t like him. Before the conclave, he named Cardinal Robert Prevost as ‘one of the dark horses’ to become the next pope. ‘Unfortunately, he’s one of the most progressive,’ Bannon ...