Politics
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
What is it with populists and comical haircuts?
Crazy hair can be as much of an asset to a firebrand politician as crazy rhetoric
Two cheers for Goodwinism
Is Matthew Goodwin right about shifting to the left on economics?
What does philosophy matter?
Philosophy is essential to our modern times, but it can also be dangerous
The culture war has become the culture
On the discourse and the subject