The Critic Magazine

30 June 2022

In the July issue of The Critic, the magazine of ideas for open-minded readers, Dan Hitchens finds the Mafia’s favoured business model is serving some of the world’s most successful corporations even better, Patrick Lawrence QC unpicks the errors in the Supreme Court’s “case of the century”, Lola Salem reviews a manifesto for modern loving and Sam Ashworth-Hayes shows that the graduates who have benefited least from the growth of Britain’s higher education sector are those the expansion was supposedly designed to help. Abroad, Lisa Hilton goes behind the scenes at the Venice Art Biennale, Robin Ashenden visits the Stalin Museum and learns why Russians admire the genocidal dictator, and James Noyes explains why so many of France’s current problems are the legacy of decisions that Charles De Gaulle took over Algeria more than sixty years ago. Michael Prodger follows fake art through the auction houses, Anne McElvoy enjoys House of Shades, and with the Wimbledon championships about to begin, Patrick Kidd salutes Gottfried von Cramm — whose stellar career was blighted first by Adolf Hitler and then by the Committee of the All England Lawn Tennis Club.