Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try to subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
Sweet magic in Hokkaido
Sushi for breakfast, crisps for dessert and delicious chocolate
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
The conservative case for socialism?
Sohrab Ahmari’s anti-business prescriptions fail to convince
Feminism’s dangerous false utopia
The modern battle for women’s rights has now fallen prey to a self-defeating brand of power politics
A levelling down agenda
An attempt to boost school diversity has lowered standards
Can science hold all the answers?
Revisiting the thinkers who challenged the scientific method’s claims to have a monopoly on the truth and offer privileged access to reality
Critical theory is dead
And theory itself has killed it
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
