Pushkin House beats a bomb threat
A note of dread on a night about Eurasianism
Dinner in the Bloodlands
Belarus Free Theatre brings moral complexity to the table
Study RT as propaganda — don’t ban it
Putin’s information war won’t be defeated by censorship
Hitchens: Safe and unsafe
He thought America’s leaders were unworthy of its potential as a great Enlightenment republic
On Solzhenitsyn’s shoulders
The great writer’s intellectual heirs warn that collective rights obscure individual suffering
Muzzled in Moscow
Drawing on the author’s experiences, the book’s effect is akin to having a long pub chat with a knowledgeable journo
A Clockwork Jihadi
Usman Khan’s failed de-radicalisation bears parallels with A Clockwork Orange
Dreams of dystopia past
At the end of a dismal year, consider the cult dystopias of the optimistic 1990s.
Jocko vs. Evil
Jocko Willink, a retired Navy SEAL and podcaster, grapples with classic accounts of atrocity—and nurtures a spark of 20th-century American idealism
Ghost of a Contrarian: Christopher Hitchens’s ‘Letters’ Revisited
Letters to a Young Contrarian: a twentieth century retrospective by a man who saw himself as a sixties radical
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
