Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
McCarthyism, Cancel Culture and the new woke agenda
J. C. D. Clark reveals how Alan Dershowitz’s book is a nostalgic defence of the ‘American dream’ and of American exceptionalism
Derailing the gravy train
The question of human rights, Christian morals and Western ethics has hitherto been an academic debate; now it is in the public arena
Mapping the Blob
The Long March draws together evidence that we half knew but shied away from
Learning from History
Despite Coronavirus, some things will never change
Why they rebel…
J. C. D. Clark delves into Extinction Rebellion’s new pamphlet in search of something more
The unhappy iconoclast of the Right
J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
