The Guild Review

Today is Queen Victoria's birthday, a public holiday in Canada (observed on the preceding Monday) and the anchor point for the movin...

Over at Laudato Si' Excerpted I'll be posting passages from the encyclical by Pope Francis several times a week for the next few mon...

Why the sudden interest in Grimm's Fairy Tales ? There are two recent films featuring variations of the Snow White story: Tarsem Sing...

Trailer to the new remake of Graham Greene 's Brighton Rock . The FT liked it . As long as they didn't cut my favorite line, it sh...

My newspaper, the Financial Times , has carried two interesting columns on immigration, a topic I addressed last week . The first , from Chr...

Clive Cookson, commenting upon Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution , writes : Two chapters caught my...

What follows is a blog post that I wrote a few days ago for a (very minor) side project of mine, Statecraft & Security . I thought the...

Peter Aspden of the Financial Times recently wrote an article titled "Of Classicists and Carbuncles" , about the Prince of Wales...

It is a rare day that I am ashamed of America, but today is such a day. Britain's Financial Times called America's educational sys...

“Observation in the real world and small-scale experiments on the Earth now take second place to expensive and ever-expanding theoretical m...

It seems every city with a subway system has free newspapers to go with it. This is definitely the case in Washington (the city of which I ...

Those who know me well will know that I have a crush on Susie Boyt . On the list of my secret love interests, she ranks very near the top, ...

When the Financial Times says your English Department is idiotic, you're probably doing pretty bad. Well, that is exactly what has hap...

The Financial Times recently had a very interesting article on soccer in Japan, which has one of the best teams in Asia, if not the best. ...

On a day when the front page of the Financial Times reports the the worst stock plunge for the S&P 500 since 1987 and the worst ever fo...