Christopher Lasch
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines