Internet
Elon Musk versus the EU
A high-level dispute has major implications for online freedom
Twitter’s doxxing problem
Social media “outings” expose serious lapses in legality and digital morality
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Elegy for the phoneless youth
The lost romance of growing up without the internet
The price of porn
Is pornography hacking our sexual desires?
Letting data live
The secrets of semiconductors
In defence of fandoms
One of the Internet’s villains has a brighter side
The death of a music shop
We shouldn’t accept the decline of the high street
Who watches the Wikipedia editors?
The curious case of a carefully-tended article about a controversial academic
Contra Hitchens on the election
It was reasonable not to vote to prevent a Labour majority
Rejecting Kant’s cant
Germany, cradle of the hate speech law
Life as a lonely quadrant voter
Who should you vote for if you lean left economically and right culturally?
Majority special!
Global majorities of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your lanyards
No dog in this fight
A Labour government will bring fresh disasters to replace the old Tory ones, but the Critic will continue its policy of honest criticism
Well-behaved Beethoven
Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)
Sue her
A mad week of misgendering, arson, and Wetherspoons coming out
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
Could Trump be a world leader?
His sense of his own importance might not be suited to isolationism
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
