Michael Lind
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
Lessons of The Jetsons
The economic future foretold by the 1960s cartoon could hardly have been wider of the mark
My Magyar dish
A dish that combines gravity with tradition, but is cheekily unorthodox
The intimacy of thoughts
An excess of technology burdens a cerebral adaptation
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
Elon Musk versus the EU
A high-level dispute has major implications for online freedom
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
Addicted in art
What role should suffering play in creativity and the consumption of art?
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies