John Wycliffe
The Trans troubles of the Middle Ages
The great scholars of the Middle Ages had their own word for Trans
The University: The idea and how to destroy it
Fourteenth-century Oxford University offers today’s Woke some lessons in cancel culture
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
