simulation theory
Red pill, blue pill
Is The Matrix best judged as cinema or cultural phenomenon?
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try to subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
Walking a tightrope
It is not easy for Jeremy Hunt to toe the government line without falling off
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled