Josef Steen
Josef Steen is a freelance writer who has written for Bright Wall/Dark Room and The Quietus
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
The problem with politeness
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
Foxy old Labour
Going after private schools would be an act of pointless institutional vandalism
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy