Elizabethans transformed
There is little about our current dilemmas that our parents and grandparents have not already confronted and survived
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Revisiting Nazi myths
Products of paranoid imaginations, less closely linked than might appear
The invention of Stoppard
“It appears to have been a sense that it was all becoming too easy that prompted Tom Stoppard to resolve, on his 23rd birthday, to give up journalism and write a play”
Letters: Parents first, Ancient and modern, Seeing red
Angela Ritch laments the failures of today’s parents (Education, July): they are “ill-equipped to prepare their children” for today’s education; their “engagement and responsibility . . . cannot be taken for granted.”
Sex matters
“It’s been quite the month for the Gender Critical community”
There have always been “woke” students—the problem is their elders
‘The people running these institutions—they’re the people who are actually cancelling the songs, renaming the buildings and withdrawing the paintings’
Don’t dismiss incels
The “incel” subjects of TFW No GF are not actually especially unattractive or unintelligent—what they lack above all is charm and an ability to motivate themselves”
A knife-fight in a phone booth
In August the Department of Education announced that GCSE students would be allowed to drop poetry as a subject in their 2021 exams, prompting protests by what the Daily Mail called “celebrity
A new optimism for the Middle East
The Abraham Accords signed last month between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain signal a new reality underpinned by moderate Islam
Why Immanuel Kant matters
Immanuel Kant is often misunderstood — and he is partly to blame. But what he has to say is well worth thinking about
Martians, mushy peas, leprechauns (and gin)
An awful lot of advertising is graceless and uninviting. But very occasionally an advert has the cheek to be enjoyable and funny
The complex cruelty of comedy
With comedians coming under pressure to only perform ideologically pure material, can comedy and satire survive?