About James Mumford
James Mumford is a British author and journalist. He currently lives in London, but has spent many years in America – most recently, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Featured articles
Cannabis as a Cultural Question
Read the article on The Hedgehog Review here, or download the PDF here.
Moral Imagination Holds the Key
Read the article on The Hedgehog Review here, or download the PDF here.
To Mrs Whitaker, with love
Click here to read this article which originally appeared on The Tablet.
Vexed principles
Click here to read this article which originally appeared on Standpoint.
Constrained by freedom
Click here to read this article originally published in The Spectator USA.
The Dangerous Pull of Political Tribalism
Originally published on Unherd I long to belong. I want a place in the world, a way to appear in public, a context. I want a team. That’s why I feel the pull of political tribalism. Yet at the same time, there’s still some part of me that hankers after integrity. That...
What would you sacrifice for integrity?
Originally published on Unherd. Franz Jägerstätter’s life is perfect — remote and romantic, lived in a valley in Upper Austria. Up in the mountains, there he feels free. His farm is plentiful. His children healthy. The woman he loves happens to be his wife. He rings...
Package-Deal Ethics
First published in The Hedgehog Review, Vol. 19. No. 3 (Autumn 2017) Ready, aim, fire, kill. A single shot was all it took. Every morning of his adult life, Gail Gerlach, a fifty-six-year-old plumber from Spokane, Washington, would strap on the holster of his 9mm...
Chocolate threatens my marriage
First published by The Spectator Life on 29 November 2014 Mr and Mrs Smith: they have nothing on us. Their conflict, mere child’s play. Because since moving to America last summer my wife and I have been engaged in an increasingly frenetic game of cat and mouse over...