Josephine Bartosch
The belief system doesn’t add up
How the quest to eliminate sex in civil society taps into a dark truth about male power and sexuality
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
Lies, damned lies, and biopics
Ridley Scott’s casual treatment of truth in Napoleon does a disservice to both history and storytelling
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action