July 23, 2020

Our universities are dangerously reliant on China If Beijing calls for a boycott, some of our most prestigious institutions could fall

Will Tanner

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

A cautionary tale for today’s ‘woke’ movement A superb film about the NYT man who lied for Stalin casts light on today's cultural convulsions

John Gray

22.07

Manners maketh the society When Michael Gove called mask-wearing a form of politeness, he was referencing a oft-forgotten virtue

Niall Gooch

22.07

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

Louise Perry

21.07

Covid could become the new common cold Even if we don’t eradicate the disease, we'll end up able to live with it

Tom Chivers

21.07

The myth of ‘Anglo-America’ Simplistic civilisational narratives are all the rage right now — but take them with a pinch of salt

Peter Franklin

21.07

How the Trumps silence their women Ghosts, victims and collaborators — the female members of the family rarely speak out

Tanya Gold

20.07

What would Zionism’s founder think of Israel? The authority of Theodor Herzl is often misunderstood or misused by his successors

Alexander Faludy

20.07

How Leeds enables ‘paid rape’ The local authorities' approach to prostitution facilitates trafficking, assault — and even murder

Julie Bindel

20.07

The coming water wars A new dam will give Ethiopia control of the Nile, and imperil Egypt's security. Will the two comes to blows?

Tim Marshall