Enoch Burke
The authoritarianism stalking Ireland
A secular clerisy is silencing dissent
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start