Anthropology
Castaneda the sorcerer
Hoaxer, fraud … prophet?
David Graeber (1961-2020)
A requiem for the radical anthropologist
Cry foal
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on food taboos and why the British won’t eat horsemeat
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Live not by kayfabe
The dark side of professional wrestling is the dark side of institutional life
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
