Universities
Don’t be a robot! Think for yourself!
Britain has a fine tradition of autodidacticism, so why not forget university and pick up a book?
The grim side of graduation
Prospects for today’s students look bleak
Justification by merit alone?
The American Dream is a national theology foundered on the rocks of race and meritocracy
Union blues
The directors of Adult Human Female explain why they are taking their trade union to tribunal
The university lie
Can academia still support meaningful intellectual life?
Cambridge in decline?
Censorious tendencies have not conquered the university yet
The silence should be deafening
Professor Matt Cook has underestimated the impact of censorship on women
Dreams or delusions?
Why following your dreams can be a nightmare
Taking Stock
“Freedom of speech is alive and well at Oxford” — but for how much longer?
The humanities aren’t dying; they’re emigrating
Humanities catastrophists are just professionally insecure
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
