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Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier