Rioting
Watching the Riots: Berlin, Trilling and Bellow on the Sixties
The riots of the 1960s left a generation of intellectuals out in the cold. Will the George Floyd demonstrations do the same?
Temperature rises in Paris
Paris unlocks but restrictions remain in place to prevent rioting
Britain’s George Floyd protesters exude the stench of humbug
The London demonstrators want to feel good without having to behave well
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
