Matt Thorne
The new televangelism
The best US television drama has a strong religious dimension
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Taking Pride
If sexual orientation is not a choice and therefore nothing to be ashamed of, then it can be nothing to be proud of either
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man