The decline of the humanist movement
The puritanical secularism of the American Humanist Association is a stark departure from the founding principles of humanism
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
