Philip Rieff
Among the deathworks
On culturing culture
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
