Academia
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
Rhodes still stands
Blaming the British Empire for Brexit is not only ignorant — it’s total rubbish
The new network for gender-critical academics
Welcome news for radical feminists and supporters of free speech
How imaginative should historians be?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about archival research and the importance of source material
David Miller may be a loon, but sacking him would open a Pandora’s Box
Toby Young disagrees with Danny Finkelstein’s call for Miller’s sacking, saying that academic staff should be free to express whatever views they like within the law
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
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Only abortion is like abortion
Don’t tack on abortion to create an impression of progressive goodness
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
