New York
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.
Met with disappointment: a quiet season for postmodern New York
Manhattan’s cultural landscape faces more tough times ahead with the cancellation of the Met’s 2020/2021 season
Start spreadin’ the news
New York will be poorer, cheaper and more violent for the foreseeable future
The ecstasy and the agony
Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife
American Tolstoy
Time to proclaim the greatness of Herman Wouk, once feted for the sweep of his historical novels
A brilliant life of ideas, insight and politics
Gertrude Himmelfarb: an intellectual giant who believed history could save us
High old time
Lisa Hilton finds Jason Atherton’s City eyrie flirty, sexy and a little bit louche
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
Centre for a vassal state
Why is a think tank dedicated to “Inclusive Trade” trying to tie the UK to EU imports?
