contemporary architecture
Weekends à la mode
Living Architecture is opening minds and changing taste
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
