August 20, 2020

Can sex offenders change? A new documentary suggests there is little hope of rehabilitating all those men who behave like monsters

Sarah Ditum

19.08

How sexual empowerment screws women The only winners from sex-positive porniness are men

Mary Harrington

17.08

What Dungeons and Dragons taught me about politics The skills learned about heroes and monsters are relevant to many aspects of government

James Kirkup

12.08

The end of secularism is nigh The West's ability to market this culturally conditioned assumption is dying

Tom Holland

30.07

Why it’s time to take ‘wokeness’ seriously Rationalism is starting to look a bit cringe, and faith is making a comeback

Mary Harrington

28.07

Why the best bands are dictatorships Democracies and music don't mix — as the success of Talking Heads and Wu-Tang Clan proved

Richard Godwin

27.07

Has lockdown broken old habits for good? Most of us are imitators not innovators: that’s why it takes a disaster to bring about change

Peter Franklin

23.07

Have I become a bourgeois cliche? My lockdown obsession with fine wine has refocused my attention on life's important little details

Giles Fraser

23.07

Imagine a world without contraception A shortage of birth control could be embraced as an easy solution to shrinking populations

Mary Harrington

22.07

The disturbing history of ‘artificial mothers’ Medicine should be helping women give birth safely — not erasing them from reproduction altogether

Louise Perry

16.07

Even excommunication is better than cancellation Cancel and be damned: today's hyper-puritan mob justice offers no chance of redemption

Giles Fraser

10.07

Why are we locking up abused women? The Domestic Violence Bill doesn't do enough to protect victims from the actions of violent partners

Julie Bindel