Feelings, Facts, and Our Crisis of Truth
What we lose when the rigour of science and journalism gives way to an aural and visual narrative culture.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes
Those who ignore politically inconvenient information about affirmative action are more interested in defending a narrative than in actually solving a problem.
Erec Smith
· 9 min read
The Age When Nothing Fits
‘Rebel Without a Cause’ remains a landmark classic, seventy years after its release.
Jarrod Sturnieks
· 12 min read
Brave New Marvel
Despite serious flaws, ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is much better than Marvel’s recent offerings. Perhaps the franchise may have turned the corner.
William Barker
· 8 min read
Epic Failure
Many of the people involved in Uberto Pasolini’s new screen adaptation of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ are intimidatingly talented. It’s a pity, then, that the film is such a disaster.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 14 min read
A New Dark Age?
Political scientists have always extolled the ideal of the informed voter, but information has become a cacophony.
George Case
· 9 min read
All Men Behaving Badly
Just six months after it was released by Netflix, Anna Kendrick’s feminist film about a real serial killer already looks like an ideological relic.
Charlotte Allen
· 23 min read
Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance
Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.
Yuki Zeman
· 6 min read
Master of Cinema
Éric Rohmer’s films demand patience and close attention, but they are immensely rewarding for those able to tolerate the absence of spectacle.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 24 min read
What Adolescence Gets Wrong
Adolescence is a moving work of art but a misleading representation of the challenges facing British boys.
Ari David Blaff
· 8 min read
Why We Distrust Technology
Why do so many people reflexively favour social solutions to climate change while discounting the promise of technological breakthroughs? The answer lies in our evolutionary past.
Marian L. Tupy
· 5 min read
Picture Perfect
Vincenzo Latronico’s prismatic novel ‘Perfection’ is a lament for the hopes and dreams of a generation reconfigured by the internet.
Andrew White
· 9 min read
The Emperor’s New Score
Classical music was one of the first fields to impose the self-censorship that now pervades so many areas of intellectual and cultural life.
Nicholas McRoberts
· 5 min read
Rumble on the Royal Mile
Scottish feminists are angry that an accomplished male sculptor has been commissioned to make a statue of a suffragette.
Aidan Harte
· 5 min read
Red Spies and Lies
Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.
Ronald Radosh
· 24 min read