Civil Right
The poet and the patrician
Stephen Parkinson reviews The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F Buckley Jr, and the debate over race in America, by Nicholas Buccola
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
