The Decadent Society
Decline of the sclerotic West
Richard Reinsch reviews The Decadent Society, by Ross Douthat
Decadence in the time of corona: A conversation with Ross Douthat
The New York Times columnist updates his arguments for a country rocked by pandemic and protest
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
