Calender
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink