A pigment of her imagination
The pitfalls of (not) being black in American academia
Shellshocked: Lebanon’s revolution falters again
Lebanon protests are futile as opposition lacks a coherent strategy
Disclaimer: Mel Brooks is cancelled
HBO attempts to protect snowflakes from Blazing Saddles
SHEAR Madness
Taking an Old Hickory switch to the dying academic historical profession
Women Can Be Cancelled, Too
Author Flannery O’Connor has returned from the dead to bring gender equality to cancel culture
Out With a Bang
It’s the end of the road for Lebanon
Start spreadin’ the news
New York will be poorer, cheaper and more violent for the foreseeable future
Vive Le Roi!: St. Louis refuses to cancel St. Louis.
How St Louis’s statue of King Louis IX will not be toppled
The ecstasy and the agony
Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife
Cancel HBO
HBO Max’s cancelling of Gone With the Wind in the wake of George Floyd’s murder is outrageous, Paul du Quenoy writes
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
