Scholarship
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
Anonymity will not solve unconscious bias
How the double-blind peer review process will hinder scholarly output in the humanities
Public Enemy Number whatever
Frederic Raphael defends his friend, the writer Joseph Epstein, latest victim of America’s cancel culture for daring to mock Jill Biden’s doctorate
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
