31 Dec 2025 - 12:02am

The triumph of anti-art Our century is defined by anaesthesia

Sam Jennings

31.12

How to survive the Machine age EM Forster believed in humanity

Jacob Howland

31.12

Britain’s free speech paradox The law has become incoherent

Jonathan Sumption

30.12

2025, the year we took the red pill Unplugging from the matrix has begun 

Ryan Zickgraf

30.12

The CIA: patron of the arts The best Cold War critics were found in Foggy Bottom

Ryan Ruby

30.12

Why women hate Lena Dunham Hating her is its own micro-industry

Sarah Ditum

29.12

John Quincy Adams never stopped fighting His diaries reveal an anti-slavery obsession

William T. Vollmann

29.12

Will China win the AI race? The CCP does capitalism better than America

John Rapley

29.12

Why artists choose Catholicism A new book on converts explains Rome’s cool-factor

Valerie Stivers

29.12

The grooming gang scandal isn’t over Labour is looking the other way

Julie Bindel

28.12

Why should Britain rescue an enemy? El-Fattah’s release exposes Starmer’s moral emptiness

Sohrab Ahmari

27.12

How America went money mad William Gaddis invented our blank and empty world

Sam Kriss