August 28, 2025

John Robison: the first tech bro He conjured an 18th-century deep state

Frederick Kaufman

10.11

Free speech is still worth fighting for No one is entitled to intellectual safety

Jonathan Sumption

06.01

Race was invented by liberals Capitalism's inequalities need to be justified somehow

Sohrab Ahmari

15.02

Witchcraft isn’t subversive A nasty paradox runs through the WitchTock ethos

Esme Partridge

05.01

Why the online Right flirt with the Taliban Islamism fills a vacuum left by modern conservatism

Esme Partridge

30.12

Progressives have sacrificed liberalism The mania for political purity is squandering our hard-won freedoms

Paul Marshall

30.08

The West has lost its virtue We have abandoned the taboos that held us together

Paul Kingsnorth

28.01

Why the West isn’t racist The Enlightenment gave us individual freedom — yet Kehinde Andrews blames it for anti-black bigotry

Ralph Leonard

02.11

The age-old tension between Islam and France A profound antipathy reaches back beyond the Enlightenment

Tom Holland

14.09

Why the new inquisition came for David Hume Just as in the philosopher's day, the zealots of the 21st century cannot understand human complexity

Giles Fraser

10.04

Where is God in this Covid horror? Church is one of the few places where we can acknowledge the existence of futile suffering

Giles Fraser

18.12

Let’s all go back to the year 2000 If you had the power to turn back time, would you re-set the 21st century and start again?

Peter Franklin