Morality
Ignoring race won’t help anything
The dangers of pathological altruism
Bestiality is worse than eating meat
Tom Chivers is wrong about having sex with animals
What does AI’s possibility make us think about ourselves?
The real moral danger of ‘artificial intelligence’ is not what you think it is
Beware the shaming and guilt-tripping bingefest
Events in the US have led to a(nother) moment of reckoning for race relations spawning a similar gamut of emotions, some justified, other less so
Jane’s profound piety
Jeremy Black reviews Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics, by Tom Keymer
The language of Conservative priorities
Why does Boris want marriage to be a contract-at-will?
The Idea of a twenty-first century University
Newman’s Idea of The University imagined by Jeremy Black and William Gibson for the modern world
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
