Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.
I’m writing this from Washington, DC, where I’ve spent the best part of a week talking to politicos and think-tankers about the state of free speech in the mother country. Don’t believe our Prime Minister when he says it’s in rude health, I’ve been telling them. It’s on life support and any pressure that can
The North American media is in a ‘purity spiral’
It’s called ‘diversity training’ but it might as well be called ‘how to speak woke-ish’
I’m falling out with my friend over the election fraud nonsense
The reality is that conspiracy theories are now more ubiquitous on the left than they are on the right
Scarcely a month passes without some distinguished professor being targeted for defenestration
Trump should double down on his COVID skepticism, just as Lukashenko did
If someone is accused of being racist or transphobic they are rarely given a chance to defend themselves
They took a knee, as it were, when what they should have done was throw themselves to the ground
Free-thinking people everywhere should condemn those among us who facilitate China’s lies
To paraphrase Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, the evil that men tweet lives after them, while the good is oft interred with their bones
Let’s make 2020 the year cancel culture gets canceled
Is everything rosy in the groves of academe?
Scarcely a month passes without a food-related scandal causing uproar on campus
Left-wing professors think it’s their responsibility to open their students’ eyes to injustice
The Canadian psychologist squares off with Helen Lewis for GQ’s December issue
No political movement is immune to the conspiratorial world view
The men’s magazine ran a cover story about how hard it is to be a white man
I always used to think liberals had won the culture war and conservatives had won the economic war. Now I’m not so sure
The New York Review of Books editor is the latest casualty of the identitarian mob
