America at 250: The New Issue of NR Is Out This year, I have been slowly working my way through The Portable Conservative Reader, edited by Russell Kirk (a man of many talents). One of the selections ...

How ironic that the crisis confronting the British monarchy, sparked by the former Prince Andrew’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, has occurred on the 145th anniversary of the death of the man in part ...

Dizzy, where are you? Your party needs you, and no less bereft of your leadership skills, the country needs you, too. And to readers of the Sun, your Brexit Diarist marks Benjamin Disraeli’s birth in ...

Historian David Starkey is leading the charge to make Benjamin Disraeli “relevant” again. Starkey may be best known to American audiences through public television and his documentaries on Henry VIII, ...

Over one hundred days after leaving office, former Prime Minister Liz Truss unveiled the autopsy of her forty-nine days in power. Blaming “a very powerful economic establishment” for the failure of ...

Will the British prime minister who has been described as “an adventurer addicted to romance and careless about facts” please stand up? The same prime minister who had first made his reputation as a ...

“Conservatism,” wrote Disraeli in his novel Coningsby, “assumes in theory that everything established should be maintained; but adopts in practice that everything that is established is indefensible.” ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Disraeli was an English Jew at a time when being English and Jewish was inconceivable; he was flamboyant in an ...

FEW public men in any country have been made the subject of so much hostile criticism as Benjamin Disraeli. The most powerful section of the press in England has always been opposed to him. The rising ...

Last week, the world’s second-oldest political party showed, and not for the first time, its capacity to regenerate itself and win an impressive majority in difficult circumstances. That’s a reference ...

SUCH a book as Wilfrid Meynell’s about Disraeli 1 makes one doubt whether a formal biography has, after all, so great an advantage over tradition in fixing the reputation of a man who has lived long ...