From The Catholic Herald, April 27, 2012 The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt ALLEN LANE, £20 Ed West hails a rare book that will frame our thinking on human nature for years to come A few weeks ago hundreds of Afghans went on a violent rampage after some American troops accidentally burned a copy of [...]
From the Catholic Herald Few articles in The Catholic Herald have moved readers as much as an interview we ran two years go with the American seminary applicant Philip Johnson, who in 2008 was told he had an inoperable brain tumour and just 18 months to live. The interview prompted many people to write heartfelt [...]
From The Catholic Herald, December 9 2011 Mark Steyn argues that big government has become a form of religious belief, says Ed West After America By Mark Steyn Regnery, £25 The Canadian-born, British-educated, American-based Mark Steyn is the biggest of the big beasts of the Anglosphere conservative commentariat. He is one of the wittiest, most [...]
Ed West meets the extraordinary Egyptian convert warning Europeans not to abandon their Judeo-Christian heritage
From The Catholic Herald God is having a hard time of it right now. With Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion already top of the British book charts and Michel Onfray’s In Defence of Atheism leading the French bestsellers, Christopher Hitchens now wades in with his own attack on the Almighty. A recently naturalised American, Hitchens [...]
One of literature’s greatest vixens has been made rather nice in this new film of Vanity Fair, grumbles Ed West. From The Catholic Herald, January 14, 2005 Making a screen version of Vanity Fair is the director’s equivalent of invading Russia; however confident you may feel in your powers, remember the land you tread over is [...]
This film about Alexander the Great is so awful that it might kill off an entire cinematic genre, writes Ed West
Ed West enjoys this remarkably convincing film of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino as Shylock
The stand-up comedian Mark Steel has produced a jolly history of the French Revolution, says Ed West . It’s a shame about his double standards