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
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
The Church of England is practicing a secular religion
Equality, diversity and inclusion can be prioritised over religious faith
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
