Kipling and Sinatra in Burma
The words Kipling chose should not be cancelled even if Frank Sinatra had a bit too much fun with them
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
