Kant
From Hegel to Hollywood
Few who sought to understand Hegel have got the gist of the Geist
The death of Ideals
TikTok, goblin mode, and the end of Platonism
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
For we are one and unfree
Australia doesn’t care about free speech, and it doesn’t want to
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
