Rhetoric
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
You can’t beat the left at its own game
Conservative attempts to reverse leftist victimology are doomed to fail
Every argument for Israel
Answering the case against Israel point-by-point
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words