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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benjamin Disraeli’s Jewishness has been a problem for his biographers, especially his English biographers. Robert Blake’s classic study (1966) — still the hallmark account of Disraeli’s political ...

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 ...

DISRAELI: A PICTURE or THE VICTORIAN AGE—Andre Maurois—Appleton ($3). The Man. Into the stodgiest period of English history minced “Dizzy,” “in a coat of black velvet, poppy-colored trousers ...

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 ...

IN THE 300 years since Robert Walpole invented the office of prime minister, only three of his 54 successors have made their living by their pen: Disraeli, Churchill and Boris Johnson. Mr Johnson ...