The pleasure of hating
Debates over what constitutes ‘hate speech’ reintroduce dangerous concepts of sin and morality into our common law
Islamophobia and the suicide of the West
In our perverse desire to tolerate the intolerable we have succumbed to Christophobia
Why we might look back on Trump’s foreign policy with fondness
Joe Biden’s election signals a return to Washington’s default liberal and progressive values, especially in foreign affairs
Brexlit and the decline of the English novel
Literature’s outraged elitists chose smug contempt over real insight
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
The gender wars have not been won
“No debate” has been defeated — but the debate is still ongoing
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
