Culture Wars
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
A left-wing Limbaugh
James O’Brien has become a part of what he loathes
What’s at stake in the culture wars?
Not only are they real but they are of grave importance
The culture war has become the culture
On the discourse and the subject
Lucy Letby and the exploitation of tragedy
Must everything be absorbed by the discourse?
A new front in the memory wars
We should celebrate achievements, not just condemn vice
Storms in South America
The Brazilian elections have divided the country like never before
Sorry, Mr Reasonable
It’s too late for centrism in the gender wars
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
