Slow death of the know-it-all
Peter Burke’s new book helpfully provokes the reader to think about the proper place of a broad education in an age unfriendly to polymathy
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
