James A. Lindsay
Round up the ordinary subjects
A free society cannot remain free if it implements the social justice movement’s bizarre ideology of vilifying ordinary people
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?