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The Spectre of Totalitarianism

The worst offenders in the new climate of intolerance are our universities

Putting a price on scholarship

Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies

Cancelled by his college

How a panicking Cambridge institution obliterated the memory of one of its most famous sons

Culture club

A cherished hub of post-colonial Indian life in London is under threat of closure

Blinded by science

Alasdair Palmer says there is little evidence to show that lockdowns are effective

Faith Masks

The ideological significance of face masks, the new vestiture of the faithful

Out of this world?

A fevered year of Covid and Trump has produced a record spike in UFO sightings

Public Enemy Number whatever

Frederic Raphael defends his friend, the writer Joseph Epstein, latest victim of America’s cancel culture for daring to mock Jill Biden’s doctorate

Studio: Drawing US Presidents

John Springs on illustrating US Presidents throughout his career

The broken circle

A remarkable group of intellectuals in pre-war Vienna used philosophy to explain the scientific progess of their time — until they were halted by murder and Nazism