Dismantle DEI Ideology The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making. Heather Mac Donald 26 Mar 2023 · 15 min read
Game, Set, Match Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays. Marilyn Simon 24 Mar 2023 · 11 min read
The Masks We Wear; The Faces We Present A new exhibition at London’s Museum of the Mind explores the personality masks worn by the mentally ill and by the professionals who treat them. Hannah Gal 22 Mar 2023 · 8 min read
Crisis Management Martin Wolf’s new book is a work of sombre brilliance, but it fails to grapple effectively with the postliberal analysis of what ails liberal democracies. John Lloyd 27 Mar 2023 · 9 min read
Professional Sedation Tenure is allowing humanities scholars to write and teach our profession into well-earned irrelevance. Robert Zaretsky 23 Mar 2023 · 6 min read
Peer Review as Shadow Cancelling If you think academics can avoid abuses by keeping out of politics, think again. Bruce Oliver Newsome 21 Mar 2023 · 9 min read
Is There Such a Thing as a Good Academic-Activist? The problem isn’t that some academics are activists. It’s that some academics do activism badly. Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Mar 2023 · 9 min read
Fantastical Beliefs in a Post-Christian Age Without a faith, people must find new sources of meaning, new congregations to which they can belong. Patrick Parkinson 20 Mar 2023 · 12 min read
Why AUKUS Matters The deal is a belated response to the Chinese Communist Party’s mushrooming belligerence. Aaron Sarin 20 Mar 2023 · 11 min read