Philosophy
Let’s get teleological
Another way to look at morality and law
Against mere negativity
Politics needs a vision of the Good
For Hume the bell tolls
Civil debate? A miracle
Sinicizing the CCP
Xi Jinping’s cynical use of Confucius
Party poppers
Can liberal philosophers be used to justify censorship?
The real benefits of loyalty and order
Evocation of a more hopeful culture lost is both the book’s strength and weakness
Who is feminism for?
A controversial new book argues that gender-critical feminism is bigger than the trans debate
Women aren’t “womb-carriers”
How the left internalised the misogyny of the modern state
Seeing the big picture
The most enduring historical work reveals eternal truths about the human condition
The progressive war on sex
New norms around “consent” are aimed at destroying the miracle of intimacy
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low