Film
Deconstructing a giant of the screen
For a gay, Hegelian, terrorist-sympathising dialectician, Fassbinder was a rather conservative moviemaker
Infra digs
Near death experiences, rising stars and cut-throat dopplegangers
The sad state of British film
Why do we accept comfortable irrelevance?
Killer roles
The Dungeons & Dragons romp-com
Taking flight
Why planes make such a great setting for films
Soon to be pulped non-fiction
Quentin Tarantino’s new book is a disappointment
The benefits of learning from home
The British model of a residential “university experience” saddles students with unnecessary debt and severs their links with their communities
Romcom revival
Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision
A hellhole Noël
Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill
Unlikely auteur of mercy
Dan Hitchens makes the case for film director Shane Meadows as a genius of Christian art
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
July letters
Tory trans activists and franchise folly
How Reform can reform itself
Reform can be major player — but it will take good sense and dedication
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
J.K. Rowling does it again
Why does one woman’s opinion cause so much outrage?
Only Joe Biden can save America
He needs to keep reminding the American public that unless they vote for him they are evil and racist
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
If you come at the king…
Trump’s response to being shot has affirmed his status as a Great Man of History
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
For we are one and unfree
Australia doesn’t care about free speech, and it doesn’t want to
