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
· 9 min read
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
· 16 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
· 12 min read
Corporate Rainbow Marketing: Too Much of a Good Thing
A recent dust-up involving NHL goalie James Reimer demonstrates the folly of pitting Pride PR against the conscience of individual actors.
Allan Stratton
· 7 min read
Professional Sedation
Tenure is allowing humanities scholars to write and teach our profession into well-earned irrelevance.
Robert Zaretsky
· 6 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
· 8 min read
Peer Review as Shadow Cancelling
If you think academics can avoid abuses by keeping out of politics, think again.
Bruce Oliver Newsome
· 10 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
· 10 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
· 12 min read
Why AUKUS Matters
The deal is a belated response to the Chinese Communist Party’s mushrooming belligerence.
Aaron Sarin
· 12 min read
Chronicle of a War, 20 Years On
The case for removing the worst of the Arab prison states looks more justifiable than ever, even as the blunders involved in its execution look even more unpardonable.
Brian Stewart
· 17 min read
Exactly the Education I Needed
In praise of combative and cantankerous instruction.
Stephen Akey
· 11 min read
A Jolly Good Scoundrel
Three Cheers for Harry Flashman!
Graham Daseler
· 15 min read
A Universe of Fizzled Stars
Is failure to succeed as bad as the fall from success?
Thomas Larson
· 11 min read