Britain

An Empty Parliament

by Peter Hitchens

The architecture of the Palace of Westminster, which once seemed to dignify the business of the place, has been diminished by the Parliament inside it.  Continue Reading »

Remembering “The Few”

by George Weigel

Seventy-five years ago, on Sunday, September 15, 1940, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine were driven from the prime minister’s country house, Chequers, to the nearby village of Uxbridge: a Royal Air Force station and the headquarters from which Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park was directing . . . . Continue Reading »

The Rational Animal

by M. D. Aeschliman

The Culture We Deserve by jacques barzun university press of new england, 185 pages, $19.95 “I have got materials toward a treatise,” Jonathan Swift wrote to Alexander Pope in September 1725, “proving the falsity of that definition of animal rationale, and to show it would be only rationis . . . . Continue Reading »