George Soros
When the left loves billionaires
Why does only right-wing funding count as “dark money”?
The art of influence
Culture and propaganda are not easily separable
Unravelling the myth of George Soros
Emily Tamkin’s ‘The Influence of Soros’ is a lucid, subtle and fair-minded attempt to grapple with a tremendously complex legacy
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
