Dan Hitchens
Students Are Leading The Free Speech Fightback
University campuses have become dangerous places to speak your mind. But the censors have suffered a number of recent reverses
Kind Hearts And Couplets
Two poets show that fierce emotion is not restricted by rhyme or meter
Shame On All Of You
Social media’s mob mentality
Better than a Grand Slam
Clive James: whether the culture is low or high, he is in it for the thrills
Dead Wrong
Eugenics in the modern world
Papal Subversives
John XXIII resisted totalitarianism and saved thousands of Slovakian Jews
The Intellectual of The Masses
John Carey sticks up for ‘ordinary life’ in his memoir The Unexpected Professor
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?