The Critic Essay

Despite three decades of independence, Estonia’s Soviet past is still a cause of division

Mass immigration has exacerbated societal dysfunction in Germany

It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU

The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions

British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing

The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come

A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump

Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human

The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions

Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more