Ascot
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future