Enlightenment
A persuasive critique of identity politics
Not Your Victim: How Our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us by
Marie Kawthar Daouda
Treading the path of enlightenment
The spiritual beauty of Plotinus and unity
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Time doesn’t fly in Bianchini’s company
Heilbron writes with authority and – what is more unusual – genuine passion
The Enlightenment as reading project
This book is not a history of ideas, nor book history, nor cultural history, but something much more
Get CRT out of schools
Divisive ideas are being imposed on our kids
Sir Tony embraces the old
The resemblance between woke and the Reformation goes beyond means to content
A crisis of truths
In our partisan, post-truth age of fake news and “follow the science”, the link between facts, narrative and power has never seemed more stark
The Qing-quisition
Why did the Chinese bureaucracy succeed where the Catholic Church failed?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing