When I told a writer friend of mine I was writing about sentimentality, he said, surprisingly, “Are you for it or against it?” Conventional wisdom holds that sentimentality is categorically repugnant, ...

Nero, Stalin and Bin Laden were all fans, but what makes verse so appealing to these leaders? Benjamin Ramm explores the connection between ruthlessness and sentimentality. Poetry is an art of ...

Mom and apple pie. Dogs and cats. Weddings and babies. God and country. We call people “sentimental” when they express unusually strong emotional attachments to events, objects, places, eras and ...

The central thesis of Ferdinand Mount's 'Soft' is compelling: Sentimentality is a form of mass soft power that steers us towards a better, more humane world Ferdinand Mount argues there have been ...