Scholarship
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
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
