Identity Politics
Utopian dreams and totalitarian nightmares
Identity politics follow the same logic as racism and homophobia
Flawed analysis of illiberal culture
d’Ancona is guilty of the same kind of arrogance and bad faith he identifies in other liberals
Woolf: heart or brain?
Unfettered praise of Virginia Woolf as a “liberated writer” has paved the way for an inexplicably popular type of bad writing
A gendered soul?
The trans debate was less toxic when it was a process, not an identity
Breaking down the gender wars
Kathleen Stock’s new book is exactly the kind of forensic, generous intervention the ongoing trans debate sorely needs
Is Foucault responsible for identity politics?
The pseudo-Foucault distorts Foucauldian doctrine not in pursuit of truth, but as a strategy of power
How to fix our broken justice system
In a world of superficial identity politics, Alexandra Wilson’s book offers a nuanced narrative
Why we need a common faith
Is there any clear route out of the philosophical modernity and nihilism that plague our reality?
Perhaps Black Lives Matter was right about the nuclear family
James Jeffrey explains why he won’t be signing up for a BLM-mandated commune anytime soon
The hidden trauma of identity politics
How did identity come to be political and cultural ground zero?
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
