Violence
End violence in schools
How can people teach and learn in such dangerous conditions?
Inconvenient victims
A woman deserves more sympathy than her killer
The perils of positive discrimination
Seeking wider representation must not come at the expense of standards
In praise of incivility
Je suis Nicola
Violence against history
An aggressively one-sided book
The distinctiveness of human aggression
A review of The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
Nigeria’s elephant in the room
Christians are being targeted in widespread violence
Jerusalem: cradle of lost peace
In the Holy Land coexistence was a fragile dream, built on unstable foundations
Serial killer self-ID
Men who kill women shouldn’t get to define themselves
Blood and guts in high school
“Euphoria” is the nightmare the older generation saw coming
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
