Norm Macdonald
Remembering Norm Macdonald
Like Peter Cook, he made being funny seem as natural as yawning
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
