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
How Noah Carl is fighting back against Cambridge
‘If we want to safeguard academic freedom, we need to start imposing real, material costs on the institutions that buckle under activists’ pressure’
Are you suffering from Boris Derangement Syndrome?
Like Trump, he is driving his enemies mad
Oberlin College and the rise of social justice vengeance
Could a bakery’s court win over a liberal arts school be the turn of the tide?
Whasssssuuuuuuuupppppp with Budweiser’s woke capitalism?
Their Pride cups are a mandatory exercise in virtue signaling
The paranoid style in British politics
No political movement is immune to the conspiratorial world view
The diversocrats take Harvard
Ronald Sullivan, free speech, and the real meaning of ‘hostile environments’
What would a Corbyn victory mean for me?
Few can doubt that a Labour government would introduce state regulation of the press
Now – as in the Soviet Union – making a joke can be a dangerous, life-changing mistake
A well-wisher sent me a copy of The Joke last year after I’d lost five positions as a result of making some stupid gags on Twitter
Jordan Peterson and mob rule at the University of Cambridge
Several Cambridge dons have been in touch to express their dismay at this craven capitulation to the mob
Cambridge’s shameful decision to rescind Jordan Peterson’s visiting fellowship
The university’s ‘inclusive environment’ means the Canadian philosopher isn’t welcome. But of course...
