Society depends on conscientiousness and taboo
Writer and researcher Ellen Pasternack joins Ben Sixsmith to discuss telling people off on the tube and the fluctuating nature of social cohesion.
Why truth and honour matter more than a quiet life
Geopolitics as a rhetoric of power
Killings amid the crunch of leaves
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
