Literacy
The new female ascendency
How will society be changed by the over-production of female graduates?
Libraries and laureates: a study in necessity
Without school libraries, boys and girls will grow up in households where the idea of owning books, or even borrowing, seems an increasingly fantastical one
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
The once and future Right?
Could Argentina’s “madman” President rescue his country from a century of decline?
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry