The Critic Essay
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
The once and future Right?
Could Argentina’s “madman” President rescue his country from a century of decline?