Conductors
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
Finnish on a high note
The biggest symphony orchestras are in need of music directors: but who’s in the running for the top spot?
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
Elegy for the phoneless youth
The lost romance of growing up without the internet
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Are we suffering from generational sink?
How can the young find meaning and coherence in the future?
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership