voters
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
The myth of the emotionally unstable populist voter
It’s time that smug pseudo-centrists had more humility
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
My Magyar dish
A dish that combines gravity with tradition, but is cheekily unorthodox
Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
No party for female voters
Gender-critical feminists have almost no one worth supporting
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
It isn’t ageist to want Joe Biden to drop out
People are concerned about his condition, not his age
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse