May 11, 2012

No sense of history without a good biography

Lyndon B. Johnson’s life story illustrates the value and popularity of a genre

May 4, 2012

An election free of logic or substance

French candidates are struggling to find a focus

Apr 27, 2012

Venture capitalists are no longer the true conservatives

Republicans are now the party of the traditionalist, pious lower middle class

Apr 20, 2012

The decline and fall of America’s literary ecosystem

You can measure the waning of cultural resources through the Pulitzers

Apr 13, 2012

Who needs the Shard when you have Shakespeare?

London has been making more architectural mistakes than most cities

Apr 6, 2012

Obama’s grasp of social Darwinism is yet to evolve

Skimming the history books for lessons in invective is not constructive

Mar 30, 2012

Groupthink is no match for solo genius

Scientists have cast doubt on the collective intelligence trend

Mar 23, 2012

There is no place for bounty hunters in America’s sport

Scandal over money for violence hits the game

Mar 16, 2012

The UK’s Budget box deserves reverence

Compared with other western countries, Britain’s system makes it a paragon of budgetary virtue

Mar 9, 2012

Cyberhackers are the most sinister of troublemakers

The practice has become a much more serious, society-threatening crime

Mar 2, 2012

Mister 75 Per Cent opts for the risky, theatrical gesture

The sound of these punitive plans to tax the rich is always pleasing

Feb 24, 2012

The new battle for the old soul of the Republican party

Romney represents the party as it was in the 1950s

Feb 17, 2012

The French are right to resist Global English

Universalisation is for better and for worse

Feb 10, 2012

Dickens: our overrated mutual friend

The outsider and self-promoter was no one’s stereotype of an Englishman

Jan 27, 2012

Class warfare need not be taxing

The pragmatic case for socking it to the rich is weak

Jan 20, 2012

Inadvertent lesson from a nautical scoundrel

Costa Concordia raises ideas about codes of honour

Jan 13, 2012

Pull the plug on TV’s push to dodge decency standards

Deregulating will only mean more boobs, bums and bullets

Jan 6, 2012

Beware bards bidding to take charge of court

Youssou N’Dour’s experience follows the philanthropic model of western ‘activism’

Dec 30, 2011

Go forth, open the mind and just walk

Mothers who praise the benefits of a good brisk walk are right

Dec 23, 2011

We wish you a merry Christmas. . . and a luxury new car

Materialism is now more a threat to social and family life

About Christopher

Christopher Caldwell Christopher Caldwell writes a weekly column on politics, culture and international affairs for the Financial Times.

He is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a contributing writer for the New York Times magazine. He is the author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West. He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he studied English literature

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