Postmodernism
The brave new world of Swedish education
What is “post-truth” schooling?
Queering Chesterton’s Wall
The Critic is moving in a new direction: every direction
A crisis of truths
In our partisan, post-truth age of fake news and “follow the science”, the link between facts, narrative and power has never seemed more stark
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
