April 25, 2019 | Standpoint Magazine

A Fifty Shades of Grey area over violent sex

Juries seem increasingly willing to accept “rough sex” as a defence against murder. Does “BDSM” allow abusers to hide in plain sight?

April 25, 2019

Features

Breast is not always best for mothers

Women shouldn’t be pressurised into breastfeeding — it’s sexist and illiberal to claim that anyone who bottle-feeds is a bad mother

April 25, 2019

Features

Artificial love in the age of AI

McEwan and the machine

April 25, 2019

Books

Chronicle of a political disaster long foretold

The man, dressed in full urban-guerrilla black attire, complete with knapsack, helmet, goggles, gloves and hammer, but wearing the iconic yellow fluorescent vest as well, systematically smashed shop windows, destroyed items stolen

April 25, 2019

Features·Foreign Affairs

Brought to book

Mathematics publishing is a soft touch. The publisher usually hasn’t a clue, so they send the manuscript to someone like me to comment on. I used to be a soft touch too

April 25, 2019

Counterpoints

Bloody liberties

"Amazon’s puff for On Freedom says that Sunstein takes a “pathbreaking” approach to the subject. In fact, confounding ability with freedom is an old mistake"

April 25, 2019

Books