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