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
From Panic to Prudence
Lessons from past financial crises.
Robert F. Bruner
· 10 min read
Public Broadcaster, Private Celebrity
Lineker has embarrassed the BBC but the vexing problem of illegal immigration will still have to be addressed.
John Lloyd
· 7 min read
Hormones First. Research Later
A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’
Bernard Lane
· 13 min read
At the Corner of Camp and Lafayette
New Orleans has a starring role in many JFK conspiracy theories—as I learned during an odd but memorable street tour.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Gender Equity When It Suits
Organisations should apply the principle evenhandedly.
Anthony Jorm
· 6 min read