Woke
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Being “anti-woke” as a protected philosophical belief
How can we protect free speech in professional environments
Political correctness contra aesthetics
Public life is becoming uglier, duller and more soul-destroying
The wellspring of woke
The right should stop “owning the libs” and focus on state power
Not having a gay old time
On BBC radio’s preoccupation with Americans and identity politics.
Confessions of a Woke Catholic
How to live with the contradictions of identity and belief
Action Tom
Can Tom Tugendhat MP resolve his vibes problem?
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
