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?
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
Why civility matters, even when it’s hard
Swallowing our pride is better than political violence
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
Commonwealth citizens should not be allowed to vote
Newly arrived non-citizens being allowed to vote makes a farce of British democracy
Blame Boris for Britain’s borders
Boris Johnson is no lost Conservative hero — he did tremendous harm
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
Big town life
Force for progress, loyalist fortress, or den of iniquity — the English town has been all of these, and more
Labour could cause irreversible damage in government
Don’t give Keir Starmer a blank cheque to rewrite British society
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge