Society
‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ at 40: A book that can change your life
Alexander Larman recalls the glee and disbelief at one of literature’s most beguilingly horrible figures
Democratic capitalism on holiday: the buffet
Is the sophisticated joy of the buffet coming to an end?
Strength and honour: looking back on 20 years of Gladiator
Are you not entertained?!
What does ‘decolonising the curriculum’ mean?
And what is oligarch money doing to the art world?
A Radical Proposal: Book reviews should review books
Give us more judgement, more opinions and more criticism
Buck fizz
Patrick Galbraith describes the exhilaration of hunting
Can hurt feelings trump free speech?
Douglas Murray reviews What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth and Equality on Campus by Ulrich Baer
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
