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
The rise of electoral sectarianism
Multiculturalism is reshaping British political life
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
You can’t beat the left at its own game
Conservative attempts to reverse leftist victimology are doomed to fail
AI and the great data robbery
Silicon Valley has stolen huge amounts of original material in order to “train” its GPT models
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
Reformed towns
The Reformation was a transformative moment in English urban history
Failing universities
What has gone wrong in British higher education?
Terrible beauty
Does the World Press know what constitutes photojournalism?
Reform can perform
Has Britain found its insurgent populist party?
Summer for sale
Cricket has always bent with the winds of change
Where are the real statesmen?
Neither populists nor managerialists can rule
