Sotheby’s
The lockdown boom in an empty room
Auction houses have enjoyed a stellar pandemic, but could their online success prove a curse?
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Good news is bad news for public health experts
It implies that there is no particular need to panic
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
The roots of academic irrationality
How ideology came to dominate the intellect — and rigidity subordinated scepticism
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic