John Keown
John Keown is Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
A last chance at class
Labour is running out of time to put working class MPs into parliament
Against beautiful losers
We must lose our attachment to the good-natured failure
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
Being economical with the truth
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life). By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
Reboot camp
In the desperate hunt for stories, adaptations are now all-dominant