02/18/2020 - 11:31am

The medieval trial of Caroline Flack Trying to remove 'bad influences' reflects a pre-modern idea of what it is to be human

Schools don’t teach about the British Empire — and that’s a good thing Secondary-level history is too limited to teach complex subject matters

Monday, February 17

Churches are closing down — I won’t let mine be one of them The bricks of a church are a statement of Christian defiance

LISTEN: Tom Chivers on Andrew Sabisky and eugenics Our columnist features on The Today Programme to discuss Andrew Sabisky

Without God, it’s harder to defend against eugenics With no religious authority, we lack the language to reject moral atrocities like human selection

Mary Harrington

Saturday, February 15

America’s conservatives are turning radical Two prominent writers are calling for a quiet revolution

Mary Harrington

Friday, February 14

Even George Soros is now a China hawk The billionaire's recent comments reveal a wider crack up among the liberal elite

Mr Jones is a lesson in the dangers of groupthink The journalist exposed the horrors of the Stalinist regime — much to the disdain of educated westerners

Thursday, February 13

WATCH: Justin Welby apologises for his ‘white advantage’ The Archbishop of Canterbury also said the Church is 'still deeply institutionally racist'

Please Boris, let HS2 be your last white elephant The PM should check his attraction to 'grands projets'

Here’s to Chaucer Lane and Attlee Avenue! The PM wants to name a train station after Margaret Thatcher — we should commemorate national icons like this more often

Wednesday, February 12

WATCH: New Tory MP Kieran Mullan maiden speech The Crewe MP on the importance of family, place and belonging in today's world

Got to hand it to him, Boris is good on cycling The PM's cycle plans are the sort of thing that small-c conservatives should welcome

Get ready for a brokered convention There was no clear winner in New Hampshire

Tuesday, February 11

Why shouldn’t modern buildings be beautiful? Beauty doesn't always need to serve a structural purpose

Is it time to give up on the ‘nuclear family’? David Brooks asks some difficult questions in his latest column

Dominic Cummings must win the battle of the SpAds A reformed cadre of advisors is an important first step

Monday, February 10

Advice for the BBC’s next director-general Why the BBC and the Church of England have a great deal in common

Corinthian columns won’t fix Milton Keynes Neoclassical architecture isn't a solution in of itself

Mary Harrington

Sunday, February 9

Middle-class patriotism goes underground An Evensong service left me with an emotion I realised I hadn’t felt for some time

Saturday, February 8

The voice of manual work in the world of letters Bud Smith's account of working in an oil refinery shows how both worlds view the other as more authentic

Mary Harrington

Friday, February 7

As long as universities are businesses, forget about free speech The government's opening salvo in the culture wars ignores the bigger problem

Mary Harrington

On campus free speech, the government will have a fight on its hands Encouraging signs from the Education Secretary, but it's only a start

St Hilda’s demolishes its chapel, and the humanists crow A 'multi-faith space' is about as spiritual as a dentist's waiting room

Thursday, February 6

Being wrong isn’t being hateful The shifting definition of hate speech is flawed and dangerous

Geek tip: if it doesn’t say “Registered Report,” don’t trust it A new study shows how effective the academic system to avoid bias really is

What Walter Bagehot would say about the State of the Union The essayist understood the difference between the political and ceremonial

Wednesday, February 5

It’s time for the church to go green Lent is the perfect opportunity for Christians to reclaim environmentalism

Mary Harrington

Boris is right — mercantilists are everywhere Unilaterally adhering to free-market ideology doesn't seem to be working so well for us either

RIP George Steiner, prophet of attention The deceased cultural critic understood that our attention is our highest gift

Elizabeth Oldfield

Tuesday, February 4

My three-year-old should not know about ‘stress’ We have been subject to increasingly shrill claims about a crisis of childhood

Take that, Leavers: some British things might be slightly foreign The Brexit-themed Horrible Histories has re-ignited a stupid debate