Intellectuals

The linguist and social commentator was perhaps the most surprising friend of Jeffrey Epstein

We appear to have reasoned our way into an intellectual dead end

The cultivation of conviviality became the golden thread of Western civilisation

Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations

We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas

Intellectual life shouldn’t be a combat sport

Muddle-headed midwit journalists should stop dabbling in armchair theology

The political journey of Paul Johnson, who renounced his socialist ideals to become a standard-bearer of the Right