Burma
Kipling and Sinatra in Burma
The words Kipling chose should not be cancelled even if Frank Sinatra had a bit too much fun with them
Tarnished golden land
Graham Stewart reviews The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
A night of spectacle and special effects
Stranger Things: The First Shadow designers aren’t afraid to raid the treasure trove
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
Against the imaginary conservative friend
Left-wing and liberal journalists should stop appealing to “true” conservatism
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
The morality of altruism
People have a limitless capacity to convince themselves that what’s right coincides with what’s best for them
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views