Disraeli · September 2026
‘Faith fades and duty dies’
At a transitional moment for Victorian faith, Disraeli wrote two religious novels. In them, he defended what he privately viewed as a lost cause.
September 29, 2026
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Disraeli · August 2026
British television show “Number 10” got personal with Disraeli and Gladstone
In a way that American TV rarely does, this 1983 series plumbed the psychological depths of statesmen as character studies
August 23, 2026
Disraeli · July 2026
Review: The Disraeli myth is consequential but endangered, a new book shows
The prime minister managed to write the single most influential novel in British political history. So why do so few remember him?
July 12, 2026
Disraeli · May 2026
Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s ideational evolution
He pulls Disraeli left, then Disraeli pulls him right.
May 6, 2026
Disraeli · March 2026
Review: Gore Vidal, inheritor of Disraeli’s tradition, painted a kind of political self-portrait in Julian
"You cannot be both a politician and a writer," Vidal said. But that didn’t stop him from trying.
March 29, 2026
Gladstone · March 2026
Did Gladstone arrive in Corfu a conservative and leave a liberal?
Disraeli’s attempt to sideline Gladstone politically paradoxically catalyzed his shift to Liberalism.
March 15, 2026