Stephen Sondheim
The knife-wielding obituarist
Tom Sutcliffe’s obituary of composer Stephen Sondheim was ill-judged and vindictive
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom