Eugenics
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
Cancelled by his college
How a panicking Cambridge institution obliterated the memory of one of its most famous sons
Eugenics and the intellectual left
To what extent should we separate an artist’s work from their period, character and ideas?
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
The art world must escape gender theory
Grim, irrational ideas still dominate the Arts
The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try and subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
How short is an arm in the arts?
ACE’s politicisation goes back all the way to the Blair government
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
Why “buffer stocks” don’t work
Yet again, economists have failed to understand Smith
When the Left thought free trade meant peace
Socialists, communists and liberals were united by a conviction that free trade could, and would, promote democracy and justice
Lefty men’s failures have radicalised women
Don’t pretend that feminists are being “radical” for no reason