And yet: essays

Che Guevara : goodbye to all that

Orwell's list

Orhan Pamuk : mind the gap

Bring on the mud

Ohio's odd numbers

On becoming American

Mikhail Lermontov : a doomed young man

Salman Rushdie : Hobbes in the Himalayas

My Red-state odyssey

The turkey has landed

Bah, humbug

A.N. Wilson : downhill all the way

Ian Fleming : bottoms up

Power suits

Blood for no oil?

How uninviting

Look who's cutting and running now

Oriana Fallaci and the art of the interview

Imperial follies

Clive James : the omnivore

Gertrude Bell : the woman who made Iraq

Physician, heal thyself

Edmund Wilson : literary companion

On the limits of self-improvement, part I : of vice and men

On the limits of self-improvement, part II : vice and versa

On the limits of self-improvement, part III : mission accomplished

Ayaan Hirsi Ali : the price of freedom

Arthur Schlesinger : the courtier

Paul Scott : Victoria's secret

The case against Hillary Clinton

The tall tale of Tuzla

V.S. Naipaul : cruel and unusual

No regrets

Barack Obama : cool cat

The lovely stones

Edward M. Kennedy : redemption song

Engaging with Iran is like having sex with someone who hates you

Colin Powell : Powell valediction

Shut up about Armenians or we'll hurt them again

Hezbollah's progress

The politicians we deserve

Rosa Luxemburg : Red Rosa

Joan Didion : "Blue nights"

The true spirit of Christmas

Charles dickens's inner child

G.K. Chesterton : the reactionary

The importance of being Orwell

What is patriotism?