The Dress
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?