Dissent over coronavirus research isn’t dangerous — but stifling debate is
The best way to defeat this enemy will be to keep faith with our commitment to intellectual freedom, not to abandon it
Social justice isn’t always just
The reaction of most accused men is to say nothing in the hope that the outrage caravan will move on
Quarantine with our new puppy will send me barking
The fact that her brain is the size of a pea makes her hard to train
How far should we go to defend free speech?
The first days of the Free Speech Union
Ganging up on Israel
To paraphrase Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, the evil that men tweet lives after them, while the good is oft interred with their bones
Why on earth did I volunteer to do stand-up?
There were two points when I couldn’t remember what came next and just plunged forward
Even the Oscars after-parties have lost their shine
Hollywood celebrities talk a big game in public, but in private they enjoy letting their hair down
Climate doomsayers keep putting sell-by dates on their credibility
I do wish we would take them a smidgen less seriously when they turn out to be wrong — as they always do
So you’ve been canceled. Here’s how to fight back
Let’s make 2020 the year cancel culture gets canceled
George Orwell would have been a Brexiteer
What Orwell would have disapproved of is the Maoist climate of intolerance sweeping through our institutions
2019 was not a good year for freedom of speech
Is everything rosy in the groves of academe?
I’ve found the perfect family film (eventually)
Getting everyone to agree on a film to watch is always tricky in the Young household
Christmas with my brother
Chris has been institutionalized since he was a teenager, either in hospitals or care homes
How could any woman fail to be won over by my new cinema room?
‘No, thanks,’ my wife said, ‘I prefer the television’
The real reason for college food fights
Scarcely a month passes without a food-related scandal causing uproar on campus
Prince Andrew should have married someone like my wife
‘It’s as if alienating 99 percent of the country isn’t enough for you’
Why are young people so left-wing?
Left-wing professors think it’s their responsibility to open their students’ eyes to injustice
The Intellectual Dark Web is more liberal than you’d think
Most of us hold opinions that 70 years ago would have placed us to the left of the Overton window
Colleges should be ‘islands of excellence’
Scarcely a month passes without some distinguished professor being targeted for defenestration
Two faces of a single calamity: how the war against inequality backfired dramatically
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite by Daniel Markovitz reviewed
David Cameron is more authentic than Boris Johnson
The former PM never quite shook off the burden of privilege
Donald Trump isn’t to blame for this spate of mass shootings
Despite what the media might tell you
I’m starting a trade union for intellectuals
Someone should go in to bat for academics if they’re targeted by an outrage mob
I love Boris for not firing me when I wrote a play about his sex life
I doubt any other editor would have been so sanguine
Portland Antifa are the real fascists
Beating up a journalist because he or she criticizes your political ideology is what the Nazi party did in Germany in the 1930s
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