Oppenheimer
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
A genius, a journalist and a little gem
A bit of lucky timing cannot be begrudged
Against Baddielism
The author is wrong about Jewish representation
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
For we are one and unfree
Australia doesn’t care about free speech, and it doesn’t want to
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
