Academia
Critical theory is dead
And theory itself has killed it
High times with high minds
Inside long-ago Alpine “reading parties” with Oxford University’s most exclusive secret society
Oh, the humanities
Not your average masturbatory scholarship
Form-filling our way to excellence
British universities are ill-served by the Research Excellence Framework
The story of the people, by the people
What is History, Now? offers a passionate defence of the pluralism of historical study
Did women in academia cause wokeness?
More women means more censorship, more discrimination, more advocacy — and less debate
Is transphobia an academic critique?
The abhorrent treatment of Kathleen Stock by Sussex UCU is a loss for academic freedom
Anonymity will not solve unconscious bias
How the double-blind peer review process will hinder scholarly output in the humanities
Still making dystopia
What have modern architects learned from their most trenchant critic?
“Watch me take a knife to your throat”
The erosion of academic freedom at LSE has culminated in threats of physical violence
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
