Stalin at Yale
Art history for the age of identity politics
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Tuesday
Monday
The Witcher’s hours
Medieval gore for millennial gamers
Saturday
Stayin’ alive in ’75
Meryl Meisler’s photographs captured the family life and nightlife of Seventies New York
Wednesday
Style on steroids: the power of Jerry Bruckheimer
Bruckheimer may think that the Oedipus Complex is a Greek shopping mall, but the set-ups of Bad Boys and Top Gun are classical
Tuesday
Laurence Fox made me go into hiding
I called the FBI but so far they have not called me back
Tuesday
Stephen King and the warped morality of identity politics
Liberals as a whole still tend to believe that people (and the art they make) deserve to be judged individually and on their own merits
Vince Vaughn owes me a colon cleanse
Your foul and reckless actions have caused my intestines to spasm
Monday
The media horror at Joker’s Oscar nods is deeply predictable
It’s almost as though Hollywood itself has had enough of the protests, the lectures and the scolding
Is he talking to us?
De Niro should live up to his movie characters and stop his knee-jerk dissing of Donald Trump
Sunday
Roger Scruton’s death impoverishes us all
Dominic Green recalls his September 2018 conversation with the late philosopher
All modern art is quite useless
The contemporary artist doesn’t expect to have to suffer for what he calls his art. Away with the garret!
The Hayes of our lives
A soul survivor whose sonic alchemy endures
Friday
The soft power of Italian jazz
Eat to the beat
Monday
Finally, Gervais said something I agree with
I whole-heartedly supported his decision to omit tributes to the deaths of white people until more actors of color are included
Friday
A hero for the Snowflake age
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is now a politically correct pantywaist
Is Kevin Spacey crafting a final masterpiece?
His videos are fascinating examples of the sheer uncanniness of American life
Thursday
We’re deep into Cats
Why T.S. Eliot, who loved cats, might have liked this feline filth
Tuesday
A former Fox producer separates the fact from fiction in Bombshell
The Fox News aesthetic is as consistent as it is rigorously enforced
Monday
Christmas crackers: the tragic soul of Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole had an instant pocket pop career. Her family, she said, were like ‘the black Kennedys’; and look how the Kennedys turned out
Monday
Star Wars: the force a-weakens
In space, no one can hear you yawn
