Progress
The revolution will not be tweeted
Gal Beckerman’s history of how high-speed communication prevents social change
Old TV keeps us grounded
What started as nostalgic escapism became much more
The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
Is a deal any closer?
There is movement on everything, except the fundamentals
Unreal liberalism for an unreal world
Individualism looks very different to the lives it excludes and discards
The empire strikes back
France is going to the polls in the shadow of its colonial past
Sex and Sanctity
There are wonders great and small in the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery
The BBC’s black hole baloney
Auntie makes a cosmic error
A square prehistory of popular music
Rock versus pop, and orchestral numbers versus guitar solos
Manifesto for how we love now
Louise Perry suggests that ancestral prudence is now lost among the youth
The rise and fall of Eurotopianism
How Mario Draghi’s vision failed
Illiteracy of the tax-cut lobby
Slashing taxes cannot make a nation better off. Instead we must increase production
How do we deal with war crime?
The horrors of Bucha have reminded us that humans are capable of evil on a huge scale
Fake feminists are the real MRAs
The feminist fix: Don’t believe the dudebros who claim to be on women’s side, but want to take away sex-based rights
Spaces of our own
What the backlash against women-only spaces reveals about rape, trauma and prejudice