Analyst or Moralist?

The increasingly political nature of cultural criticism does a disservice to the arts, to artists, and to criticism itself.

James Jackson

15 May 2024 · 11 min read

Portrait of Irish poet and dramatist Oscar Wilde, USA 1882. Alamy

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France’s Founding Fathers: A Review of ‘House of Lilies’

In a new book, Justine Firnhaber-Baker tells the story of the Capetian dynasty (987–1328), whose rulers stitched a set of medieval duchies and counties into a single kingdom.

Charlotte Allen

26 Jun 2024 · 20 min read

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The War Against Truth

It has long been a cliché that China is inscrutable to foreigners, but it is also becoming inscrutable to itself.

Aaron Sarin

26 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

Podcast #240: Parsi Bombay, Then and Now

Iona Italia talks to Nev March about her historical novel, Murder in Old Bombay, and about the Zoroastrians of Bombay both past and present.

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26 Jun 2024 · 43 min read

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What Heterodox Feminism Is Not

It's not enough to be a dissenter: it also matters what you are dissenting from and what you're getting out of it.

Holly Lawford-Smith

25 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

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The Roots of Progressive Radicalism: Nellie Bowles vs. Musa al-Gharbi

In two new books, a journalist and an academic offer competing explanations for the extremist ideological tendencies within left-wing cultural, academic, activist, and political institutions.