LATEST ISSUE

IDEAS & POLITICS
ROBERT HENDERSON decries the Lisbon Treaty for its centralizing of power and nascent totalitarianism, and explains why withdrawal from the EU is now the only option for Britain
ROGER KERSHAW believes that the Scottish government’s decision to release the Lockerbie bomber is just part of an emerging SNP foreign policy
RICHARD LYNN lays out the embarrassingly stubborn evidence for global group differences in intelligence
DEREK TURNER responds to Prof Lynn in his editorial (follow link above)
MARK G BRENNAN surveys the ruins of the American conservative movement in the age of Obama
DEMETRIS DEMOPOULOS reports from a bankrupt, exhausted and divided Greece
C B LIDDELL wonders if the implosion of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party betokens a revulsion against decades of Westernization
LESLIE JONES recalls the white supremacist views of Abraham Lincoln
STODDARD MARTIN remembers the controversial wartime career of Rezso Kasztner

CULTURE & REVIEWS
Classicist KENNETH ROYCE MOORE says that the Spartans pioneered the black arts of propaganda and utopianism – lessons not lost on future Europeans
FRANK ELLIS reviews an ambitious study of Anglo-German relations in the Victorian and Edwardian eras (Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain: Essays on Cultural Affinity, Domink Geppert and Robert Gerwarth, eds)
STEVE MOXON reviews a compelling if untidy analysis of modern marriage (The Marriage Delusion: The Fraud of the Rings, by Mike Buchanan)
Uncollected Folk – ROY KERRIDGE on West Indian church music
Second Reading – DEREK TURNER on The Diary of a Nobody
Poetry – Oysters by ANN STEVENSON, and Winter Light by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN