Stephen Cohen
Stephen Cohen: historian, polemicist and friend of Gorbachev
Cohen was a prophet of America’s decline
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try to subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation