Jokes
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
