02/12/2020 - 12:01am

Are we too obsessed with sex? Sex is intellectually tedious and barren, according to the incoherent and reactionary <I>Why Sex Doesn’t Matter</I>

Zoe Strimpel

11.02

Why arranged marriages make sense The idea of marrying for love hasn't been a very successful innovation

Ed West

11.02

How daughters turn fathers into feminists Sometimes it does take fatherhood to turn on men's empathy-valve

Tom Chivers

11.02

Why we should be worried about coronavirus This crisis probably won't kill us all; but sooner or later a pandemic is bound to wipe out the human race

Peter Franklin

11.02

Sinn Féin’s triumph is a victory of forgetting The exultant party doesn't want to disown its IRA past; it wants to selectively celebrate it

Jenny McCartney

10.02

Another nauseating night at the Oscars Grievance, moral purity and overblown egos have turned award ceremonies into hypocritical freak shows

Gareth Roberts

10.02

What Boris Johnson could learn from Emmanuel Macron There is an increasingly post-liberal drift to the French President's strategic vision

Aris Roussinos

10.02

Could this be Germany’s next Chancellor? The elites adore Robert Habeck and his Green party — but the appeal only extends so far

David Goodhart

10.02

America’s elite is plotting revenge What if the crisis facing the US is not Donald Trump, but the coming backlash against him?

Justin Webb

07.02

The danger, and hope, of the European Right This week's National Conservatism conference in Rome brought together the continent's leading nationalist thinkers. What should we make of them?

Douglas Murray

07.02

Why is Sinn Féin rising? A seismic shift in Irish politics could see the party, which is still ruled by an army council, in government

David Quinn

07.02

It’s time to put MPs in uniform The Tracy Brabin debacle proves that sartorial choices are eclipsing our lawmakers' ideas

Polly Mackenzie