Libertarianism
I went to anti-woke Davos
The ARC of justice is long, and bends towards complacency
Who’s afraid of the 1950s?
Romanticism can be radical tool for positive change
Fashioning divinities
The false gods of Ayn Bland
Don’t let the bookies’ cry for freedom fool you
Desperate to win Conservative hearts and minds, the gambling industry is pulling the cheapest trick in the book
Remembering Brian Micklethwait
The man who made libertarianism fun
Reflections of a scientific humanist
Michael Shermer’s new book is a collection of skilful elucidations of academic ideas
Wokeism is Latter Day Puritanism
Today’s political conflicts replay past battles between Britain’s libertarian and puritan traditions, argues historian Nigel Jones
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
