Writers who forget bourgeois aspiration lose a dimension

Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death

The crimes of the woke middle class come with the safety net of a judiciary that is in on the racket

Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas

Why on earth would we want to see the same tawdry old stories endlessly re-enacted?

Why are so many still enthralled by even the most grotesque Victoriana?

How the ”Science-Based Medicine” blog succumbed to the pressure of trans ideology

As July marked the one hundredth anniversary of the CCP, Alex Story examines its performance over the past fifty years

Robert Thicknesse on the woes of modern, British opera

Whether ties are out or tattoos are in, there is a performative aspect that in both cases can hide a murkier if not awful truth