University
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
What has gone wrong with our universities?
A warts and all look at British higher education
More town, less gown
The cult of mass university education saddles many students with unecessary debt, breeds dissatisfaction and does little to foster culture or enterprise
The new female ascendency
How will society be changed by the over-production of female graduates?
Is the English Lit degree killing love for literature?
Alexander Larman and Graham Stewart discuss the direction of English Literature at universities
Are American universities under foreign control?
Paul du Quenoy reveals the unreported foreign investment in US universities
Degrees of Mental Illness
Cassandra Russell on the university students who game the system by self-diagnosing as psychologically unwell
Poison Ivy League
Claudia Savage-Gore faces the grim prospect of her daughters opting for US universities
Remembering George Steiner
Today Arendt is only read by academic cultists – Steiner by the public
Can hurt feelings trump free speech?
Douglas Murray reviews What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth and Equality on Campus by Ulrich Baer
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
