-
Is America Back? It Depends on What You Mean by “Back”
It’s hard to overstate the significance of this election in terms of Democratic advances nationwide — but is America “back”? There are real reasons to be hopeful about the next chapter of American politics, but we must be clear-eyed about the road ahead and remember how we got here in the first place.
-
The Horse and His Boy: Or, When the Classics Let Us Down
The magic of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is that of the Otherworld, brought forward from Medieval Celtic lore and into the banality of modern Britain: the wartime refugees who slip through the back of the wardrobe to become kings and queens of Narnia. The Horse and His Boy is utterly devoid of this…
-
Revisiting the Classics: The Things I Love About C.S. Lewis
I love children’s literature. Good children’s literature reminds us why we read in the first place: the adventure, the joy, the thrill—and the deep contentment of coming home again at the journey’s end. And few do that better than C.S. Lewis. Not only is he clever and creative, he knows how to write for children in…
-
This wasn’t entirely inevitable
Since last week’s local and devolved elections, I’ve heard a lot of the I-word floating around. How inevitable everything was. How voters were dissatisfied with the pace of change so it was inevitable that Labour would lose. I think Morgan had cards left to play—maybe Labour couldn’t have kept power, but she could’ve kept her…
-
What I’m thinking about on the day of the 2026 Senedd elections
Today, Scotland and Wales both have devolved parliamentary elections. So, here in Cymru, we’re deciding who will represent us in the Senedd in Cardiff, our capital. Unless the polls have been incredibly mistaken, Labour’s century-long hold on Cymru is over. The question is: what’s next? Will UK’s answer to MAGA, Reform, come away as the…
