August 2021

Wokeness is not just a social philosophy, but an elite status marker, a strategy for personal advancement...

The pair fly to Japan where they discover the virtual world conjured via the internet does not reflect reality...

I grew up hearing the story of my mother and grandmother going to the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, to see Victor Herbert’s The Red Mill. This was 1940...

Constable’s work depicts a quiet, pastoral scene on the River Stour, which forms part of the border between Essex and Suffolk...

In adolescence, I craved rapini and gai lan, salty and oil-slick, perfumed with garlic. In adulthood, I’ve grown fond of cabbage...

In reading bits and bobs of Deleuze, I came upon some pages in What is Philosophy? that cooly and accurately describe the artist’s experience...

Today, when I hear that fraudsters such as Robin DiAngelo are seeking to coerce employees of large corporations into joining “racial affinity groups”, my only thought is this: No thanks, lady. I’ve seen that trick before...

Political indoctrination became an important strategy alongside moral instruction...

Inside St Mary’s Church in Gdańsk stands a Clock of Everything. At fourteen metres, it was the tallest clock ever built when Hans Düringer completed it in 1470...

It couldn’t possibly be that I was actually missing the ebb and flow of office life, could it?

It's poetry where the Punk finds their way out of the mosh pit and into the solo business of writing poems to make sense of it all...

On the first of July, artists, curators, and art afficionados gathered at the gates of the Sharra landfill of Tirana to attend the inauguration of a public artwork by Kosovar artist Sislej Xhafa...

What is Socrates getting out of showing people that they don’t know what they take themselves to know?

Robert Gates argued in his memoir that Biden had been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades...

Was the Glorious Revolution even a revolution? Should it be understood as its own event or merely the final chapter in the seventeenth-century English conflict with the Stuarts?

A parenthetical phrase (like this one) may refer to things outside of it, parts of the sentence it inhabits (say)...