9/11
The very American heroism of Todd Beamer
Twenty years ago today, on the morning of 11 September 2001, 32-year-old Todd Beamer boarded a United Airlines flight at Newark,…
How the left thought they were right to fight the war on terror
How the left thought they were right to fight the war on terror
Has it really got harder to see a GP in person?
Floating vote Voters in St Petersburg were presented with three candidates all calling themselves Boris Vishnevsky, with two believed to…
The 9/11 anniversary marks a painful moment for squaddies
The sweet salvation of the summer recess over, we returned to Sandhurst for our final term of officer training. It was…
End of empire
The end of World War Two inaugurated the era of American dominion, with the United States politically, economically and militarily…
Still, the Global War on Terrorism goes on
I can think of only a single positive thing to say about World War One: it ended. Yet in addition…
All things lead to 9/11: An American Story, by Christopher Priest, reviewed
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 many writers spoke of feeling immobilised. The scale of the attacks and the world’s…
A countercultural upheaval
‘New York stories in a way are always real estate stories,’ says the journalist Alan Light in Lizzy Goodman’s bustling…
Weird, wise, thought-provoking and hypnotic: Heart of a Dog reviewed
Heart of a Dog is a film by Laurie Anderson and it’s a meditative, free-associating rumination on life, loss, love…
How trauma is passed down through the generations in our DNA
Sue Armstrong’s programme on Radio 4 All in the Womb (produced by Ruth Evans) should be required listening for anyone…
How our politicians – and media – are helping terrorists win
Publicity and panic make us all accessories to jihadi murders
Serial returns with a story of loyalty, resilience and punishment
The new season of the Serial podcast (produced by the same team who make This American Life) was launched last…
Tony Blair: What I got right – and Labour now is getting wrong
And what the Labour party is now getting wrong
ENO's Between Worlds at the Barbican reviewed: too respectful
This week, some 200 years since Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War’, almost 80 years after Picasso’s ‘Guernica’, and over 50…
The fox that killed my chickens depressed me more than 250,000 tsunami deaths
It is hard to know how a tragedy is going to move a person who is not directly affected by…
Hooray for Homeland - Carrie’s back blasting America’s enemies to pieces with drones
One of the more welcome and surprising things about television at the moment is that Homeland (Channel 4, Sunday) is…
Henry Kissinger interview: ‘I don’t see the wisdom there once was’
Henry Kissinger on statesmanship from Richelieu to Obama
