Metropolitan Opera
Get woke, go broke: when cancel culture backfires
The attempted cancellation of James Levine came at a high price for New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
The campaign against National Conservatism is a disgrace
A peaceful conference is facing state and activist intimidation
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Godfather of British geopolitics
The revolutionary global thinking of an Edwardian academic continues to shape attitudes today
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
