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

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

Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series ...

In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...

Terrence Malick is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival appearances; he doesn’t feed us stories of what he was doing and why. For decades, ...

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On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband. But Jane Austen’s 1814 ...

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

Piet Mondrian liked to claim that his life had been a straight line. ‘I started off as a naturalist,’ he told a journalist who visited his studio in Paris in 1922. ‘I soon felt a need for a more ...

Mussorgsky’s alcoholism caught up with him before he could finish Khovanshchina. At the time of his death in 1881 ...