Will racial blending undermine identity politics? Let’s hope so
It’s not only right-wing reprobates who recoil from demographic changes
Jazz is dominated by men. So what?
The Europe Jazz Network conference is trying to impose gender-balance and reduce the dominance of male instrumentalists. What a waste of time.
Trump is right about many things, which is why he must be stopped
Liberals and conservatives alike have every reason to jelly this President in an immobilizing aspic
The migrant caravan isn’t an issue of good and evil. It’s about self-interest
Americans have no more of a moral right to dry homes and safe streets than those Hondurans do
Christine Blasey Ford is a poor role model for young women
The deferent and visibly fragile academic with a high, mousy voice makes a lousy feminist role model
Men should be mad about #MeToo
It’s not only women who don’t have penises
It’s not transphobic to question transgenderism
Why has any expression of measured concern about the trans phenomenon become so impossible?
Millennials aren’t taking offence. They’re hunting for victims
The noble defence of an infinitely multiplying list of ‘marginalised groups’ is a predatory movement
Identity politics are – by definition – racist
The movement insists that what we are is more important than who we are
No apology is ever enough for the digital mob
The most sorry person this week? American poet Anders Carlson-Wee.
A reply to my critics: Don’t fight racism with racism
Dear 2016 WriteNow mentees, Thanks so much for your open letter to me. It seems only good manners for me…
When diversity means uniformity
I’d been suffering under the misguided illusion that the purpose of mainstream publishers like Penguin Random House was to sell…
I like a fight too much. That’s why I’ll never go on social media
Twitter outrage about a few sectarian mugs has left Lionel Shriver glad to be in her fantasy world offline
Why catastrophising is my idea of a good time
When, on a test of general knowledge, the highly educated score far worse than chimpanzees, university degrees may be overrated…
Why catastrophising is my idea of a good time
When, on a test of general knowledge, the highly educated score far worse than chimpanzees, university degrees may be overrated…
Can you prove you’re not a racist?
These days throwing insults often just means ‘I disagree with you’
The all give and no take of US taxes
Last week, the New York Times ran a very un-New-York-Times-y article, ‘Resentment Grows Over Who Gets Health Care Aid’. It…
Why not ban artists who forget to feed their cats or recycle?
Sometimes a picture — the big picture — is worth more than a thousand words. Consider this Art vs Artist,…
Ikea’s real genius is making furniture disposable
We love it when things fall apart. It's an excuse to go shopping
The lie that is recycling
So much of what we carefully separate just ends up wasting energy
We don’t need to talk about gun control. After the horror of Vegas, we need to be dumbstruck
To my embarrassment, ever since my novel We Need to Talk About Kevin was published in 2003, I’ve been a…
Tear down statues? At this rate, we’ll have to rename New York
Growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina, I took the monuments around the state capitol for granted. The first Confederate soldier…
