Humanities
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Dear Rishi, what about the arts?
The Tories appear to have no plan for the Arts Council
The humanities aren’t dying; they’re emigrating
Humanities catastrophists are just professionally insecure
Oh, the humanities
Not your average masturbatory scholarship
Lucien Grote: Experimental Playwright
Lucien veers between lamenting modern theatre’s disdain for “truly serious work” and suspecting that it all could have gone a great deal worse
Anonymity will not solve unconscious bias
How the double-blind peer review process will hinder scholarly output in the humanities
Utilitarians at the gate
Government and the purpose of higher education
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
In defence of British theological education
Critics should be more optimistic about the new generation of ordinands
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.
The truth about London Bridge
Flawed narratives should not distort historical memory of the planning for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
