Culture
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Are we suffering from generational sink?
How can the young find meaning and coherence in the future?
Cufflinks for Christmas
It is much better to be overdressed than underdressed
The triumph of Twee Britannia
We must resist the siren songs of Bake Off and Boaty McBoatface
Eight women well worth meeting
“Parallel Lives” is an unsung gem of an exhibition
Art does not exist to improve society
We should resist the cultural reductionism of the modern “creative industries”
Ubuntu and the path to progress
South Africa cannot continue down the road towards conflict
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
Against ideas
We have too many of them and they are not doing any good
What happened to the working class intellectual
Young people are not being encouraged or inspired