Borat bores us
Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Borat film is a flop
Are American universities under foreign control?
Paul du Quenoy reveals the unreported foreign investment in US universities
American Xanadu: an appreciative history of Mar-a-Lago
Les Standiford’s book situates Mar-a-Lago’s surreal qualities in the larger history of Palm Beach
A series of unfortunate cancellations
Has the vanguard of wokeism taken over the realm of academic publishing?
Covidfefe: Donald Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis won’t decide the election
The President’s illness could actually help him
Don’t kiss me, Kate: purging the American academy
Was Kate Pickering Antonova Twitter storm an unintended announcement of academia’s irrelevance?
Titled and entitled: Meghan and Harry humiliate themselves yet again
The Sussexes are yet to grasp that no one cares for their view on the upcoming US presidential election
Get woke, go broke: when cancel culture backfires
The attempted cancellation of James Levine came at a high price for New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
Met with disappointment: a quiet season for postmodern New York
Manhattan’s cultural landscape faces more tough times ahead with the cancellation of the Met’s 2020/2021 season
A Ruthless Supreme Court
Justice Ginsburg’s legacy will now be weaponised by the woke for November’s elections
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The Bard at Christmas
It is impossible to appreciate Shakespeare without acknowledging his Christian foundations
Green in name only
The Green Party doesn’t understand the realities of rural life
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
