Trapped in a gilded cage
Women’s rights are far more precarious than we have been led to believe
Biological sex in Sydney
The city punishes those who accept the reality of biological sex and the material implications of existing in a female-sexed body
Life as an accidental émigré
The coronavirus pandemic has birthed a new historically-specific group: the lockdown refugees
Black lives matter
Knife crime is predominantly black on black, so don’t hold the police back
Non-binary is no joke
Becoming “sex-less” allows people to opt out of sex-based rules
Nikolai Kapustin: 4th piano concerto (Capriccio)
Listening to Kapustin in 2021 is an act of nostalgia, a gesture of defiance to the dictates of fashion
“No happiness in life”: a very Russian outlook
How endless optimism can make it difficult when confronted with unpleasant choices
Did WhatsApp just cost America Afghanistan?
Rather than fight, the Taliban appear to have phoned everyone in the country
Woolf: heart or brain?
Unfettered praise of Virginia Woolf as a “liberated writer” has paved the way for an inexplicably popular type of bad writing
Canadian statues matter
Monument vandalism is a cover for an all-out assault on the country itself
Down with corporate feminism!
There’s more to feminism than how many women are on the FTSE100 — Mary Ann Sieghart’s new book does a disservice to working-class women
Ideology-based medicine
How the ”Science-Based Medicine” blog succumbed to the pressure of trans ideology