Features
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities