Flags
When the left loves flags
Modish causes satisfy tribal instincts
Stars, stripes and dollars
Michael Prodger on the artists who make huge sums for painting the US flag
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
