Matthew Reisz
Matthew Reisz is a freelance journalist who was editor of the Jewish Quarterly and a staff writer at Times Higher Education. He tweets at @MatthewReiszTHE
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
All aboard the ship of self-improvement
Why did NYU withdraw its support before the Floating University had left port?
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
In defence of anons
Anonymous accounts did not cause the rioting, so why are they being blamed?
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas