Book Review
All aboard the ship of self-improvement
Why did NYU withdraw its support before the Floating University had left port?
The lives of Mary Magdalene
A fine book explores her life and afterlife
Effective affinities
Moral philosophy, the individual and the future
Liberalism’s lion
Christopher Hitchens remains unforgettable
All action, no abstraction
On the hunks and lunks who dominated two decades of Hollywood
The lovelorn lady who broke the rules
A romantic forced by peculiar privilege into perpetual masquerade
Searching for a radical alternative
Two new titles join a burgeoning chorus of populist lament
A massacre of straw men
Kehinde Andrews is not a serious reviewer
Missing a slam dunk
Cleopatra is not a terrible movie, but this failed Hollywood history is
A stirring tale of delicious complexity
From the Mongols’ conquest of Persia to their defeat by the Mamluks
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
