Hate crimes operate as a contemporary, de facto blasphemy law

We need to stop celebrating men who do the bare minimum

The BBC threatens to report gender critical women to the police

The city punishes those who accept the reality of biological sex and the material implications of existing in a female-sexed body

It would have been better for Simone Biles if we’d just accepted her defeat

The puritanical streak in the British character has gone into overdrive with Covid-19

To save the next generation, don’t listen to the fans

The Taliban’s grimly predictable advance is a reminder that withdrawal is not the end of Biden’s Afghanistan headache

In Brazil, the Republic has crossed the Rubicon

Boris Yeltsin’s path to the end of the Soviet Union, and the dawn of a new Russia that led, unerringly, to the despotic power we see today