Mauritania
How the world turns a blind eye to African slavery
Investigating the slave-owners of the Sahara, where more than 100,000 people were born into inherited captivity
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
