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By Philip Wood Review of The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. Catherine Nixey. Pan Macmillan, 2017. Published in the print edition as "Nostalgie de la Boue," Spring/Summer 2018, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 104-105. “Christian triumph was not merely a victory: it was an annihilation.” This engaging popular history describes the dramatic changes in the Roman Empire in the course of its conversion to Christianity. Catherine Nixey represents the early Christians as moralists, censors and vandals. Using the writings of the church fathers and their opponents, she identifies the role of the church in the melting...

The Dorchester Review Cumulative Index has arrived. This is the first instalment.

By Mark F. Proudman CANADIAN NATIONALISM works in favour of the left, as demonstrated by the election of Apr. 28. The nationalist reaction to President Trump’s 51st state and annexation talk propelled the Liberals, not long ago written off, back into power for the fourth time, over the more right-wing Conservatives.  Often considered a right-wing phenomenon, in Canada left-wing parties speak the language of nationalism more easily and more authentically than the parties of the right.  This has not always been the case. Canadian nationalism has been a nationalism of the left for about 60 years.  For most of the...

Is November 20 no longer Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day? And what was Sir John A. Macdonald's actual birthdate?

Every constitutional, or institutional change, billed as reform, in the UK, Canada, and elsewhere in the Commonwealth in the last 60 years has made government worse, writes John Pepall.