Elites
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Homeostasis and the death of politics
Ignore feedback mechanisms at your peril
Searching for a radical alternative
Two new titles join a burgeoning chorus of populist lament
Hive collapse
The new elites have ruined everything. Now they’re destroying themselves
The anatomy of oikophobia
A cyclical view of history exposes Western self-contempt
The new Christo-elitism
On the dangers of intra-religious alienation
Bring back plain English
Most literary criticism is don addressing don, in a style designed to exclude ordinary people
Has Britain gone mad?
The myth of fighting conspiracy theories can be as comforting as the real thing
The failure of normative power
You can’t always legislate around disagreement
The suffocating blandness of elite fashion
Leaders should dress like leaders