Alexis de Tocqueville
Will TikTok take to Tocqueville?
Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun
Frustrating life of a man of ideas
We remain interested in Tocqueville because of the power of his thought, not his life story
Fear, loathing and revolution
Was Alexis de Tocqueville the first social scientist?
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
The curious incident of the dog and the tribunal
A welcome win for sanity on gender, freedom and the workplace
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors