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Why there is no effective rationale for free speech
JONATHAN CLARK
On 27 February, the day before he lectured the Ukrainian president in the Oval Office on the virtues of gratitude, the US vice president, JD Vance, lectured the British prime minister in the same plac
Contempt for democracy and the perversion of classical liberalism
Political polarization and the crisis in higher education
On the evening of 7th May 2025, three New York Police Department (NYPD) helicopters were hovering over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus in upper Manhattan. Police vans arrived soon aft
Every news bulletin brings more breathtaking brutishness from the Trump administration. One day it’s “disappearing” immigrants; another, disdaining court orders. On yet another it might be pardoning t
What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS
