Loretta Ross
Pretty prose and ugly reality
Review: “Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World” by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton