Isaac Sligh
Isaac Sligh is Associate Editor of The New Criterion
Land of ghosts and legends
In search of Crusaders in chainmail and a city of the dead in the Caucasus Mountains
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
