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The Architecture of Autocracy
Design for the End Times
Infinite Style
The Rise and Fall of the Creative Class
How We Got Hooked on Chips
Fake It ‘Til You Break It
Design for Dictators
Crisis and Heroic Design
Powerless Heritage
The Lost Magic of the Seas
The Kitchen as a Theatre of History
The Consolations of Green Design
Napoleon’s Furniture
Designing Modernity
How the Internet Turned Sour: Jon Rafman and the Closing of the Digital Frontier
Tooze and the Tragedy of the Left
The Fall of Zuma Threatens More Chaos for South Africa
Disaster Junkies
How the Celebs Rule Us
The Charismatic Politics of Social Media
Tradition with a capital T: Dylan at 80
Terra damnata
How Napoleon made the British
Europe’s vaccine cooperation isn’t federalist dogma
Why I miss the pub
Europe’s empty moral gestures
The age of mass timber: why we should build in wood
“Euro-English”: A thought experiment
What space architecture says about us
How much is a high-status meme worth?
The double nightmare of the cat-lawyer
Gamestop: A Classic Robin Hood Tale
Gambling on technocrats
Why accusations of vaccine nationalism miss the mark
What’s really at stake in the fascism debate
After the Capitol, the battle for the dream machine
Poland and Hungary are exposing the EU’s flaws
Europe’s deplorables have outwitted Brussels
The Philosophy of Rupture: How the 1920s Gave Rise to Intellectual Magicians
Biden versus Beijing
The Last of the Libertarians
Train-splaining a new world order
Anti-racism and the long shadow of the 1970s
Why I’m not giving up on my ego
The left’s obsession with symbols has gone too far
The politics of crisis is not going away any time soon
Protest and the pressures of lockdown
Ancient liberties, novel dangers
The politics of this crisis will be grim. We should prepare now.
Coronavirus and the spectre of the closed network
The end of extraordinary politics?
Reading Antigone in an age of resistance
The Forgotten Books of Dorothea Tanning
Notes on The Artist’s Studio
Notes on “Why Liberalism Failed”
Addressing the crisis of work
Notes on “The Bowl of Milk”
Testing the limits of universalism in science
Yuval Noah Harari’s half-baked guide to the 21st century
What was Romanticism? Putting the “counter-Enlightenment” in context
Social media’s turn towards the grotesque
When did death become so personal?
The Price of Success: Britain’s Tumultuous 19th Century
How The Past Became A Battlefield
Eliot’s Waste Land and the crisis of artistic value
Please, Katie Hopkins and co, keep your culture wars out of South Africa
Consumerism or idealism? Making sense of authenticity
Portraying A Nation: Germany 1919-33 (Review)
Does Free Speech Need Boundaries to Survive?
Invisible Lives: Ethics between Europe and Africa
South Africa: The Art of a Nation (Review)
Is Empathy Good?
Category Error: Hilma af Klint
Jo Spence: The Final Project
George Grosz and the Necessity of Offence
Carol Bove: Between Art and Design
Tom Wesselmann: Collages
Christian Rosa’s Rube Goldberg Machine
The Abstract White Relief
Cotton to Gold: The Industrialist Collectors
Another Minimalism: After California Light and Space
Interview: Assemble Architects
Mário Macilau’s Portrait of Maputo
Escaping Fiction
Making It: Young Artists Today
Larry Bell: Light Knots
The Roots of Navajo Nation
Lou Reed: Obituary
Erling Kagge: The Art of Adventure
James Shaw’s Organic Future
Frank Auerbach: The Art of Immersion