Race
It takes all sorts
Patrick Galbraith on rural racism and the fear of outsiders
Why I’m no longer talking to black people about race
The race debate has been taken over by grifters with a vested interest in a booming equalities industry
Letter from Washington: Race and the 2020 race
The facts don’t fit the story Democrats want to tell themselves
The author who is ‘ex-Black’
Louise Perry reviews ‘Self-Portrait in Black and White’ by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Letter from Washington: Albert Murray and the case for complexity
A dissenting opinion in a revolutionary moment
Why accusations of vaccine nationalism miss the mark
Rather than condemning governments for favouring their own citizens in this way, we should focus on how vaccine surplus can reach poorer parts of the world
Is Foucault responsible for identity politics?
The pseudo-Foucault distorts Foucauldian doctrine not in pursuit of truth, but as a strategy of power
Letter from Washington: What were they thinking?
A question to which there is no exonerating answer
The talented (if very odd) Patricia Highsmith
On the 100th anniversary of her birth, Highsmith remains one of the great uncompromising writers of the last century
Peculiar world of a singular talent
Highsmith was a great writer, with a moral vision bracing enough to clarify the terrors of the twentieth century
Michael Ashcroft on the rise of Rishi Sunak: what is he thinking? What does he intend?
In this podcast, Graham Stewart talks to Michael Ashcroft, whose new book is the first biography to be written about the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Diplomatic baggage
The EU is now demanding that it has an ambassador of equal standing to any nation state. So is the EU a state after all?
Why is atheism no longer cool?
How the New Atheists failed to make God go away
Inscrutable Wagner
Roger Scruton’s appreciation of Richard Wagner will remain an important and inexhaustible part of his legacy
Why has the language surrounding motherhood become so contentious?
The desire to formalise and stiffen the way we talk to each other in the name of inclusivity is a worrying trend