The Critic | January 2021
he Critic's January/February issue - 112 pages of ideas (and diversions) for open-minded readers. Our Contra-Woke special: Andrew Doyle on how Titania McGrath got him cancelled; Nick Cohen on how Social Justice Warriors are using the instruments of the state they profess to abhor to silence their opponents; Michael Collins on how the BBC are a New Class; Bruce Gilley on how to stop bad ideas from academia spreading outside universities; David Starkey on not toppling St Paul's Pantheon; and Clive Aslet on the joys of eating with Rex Whistler's soon to be cancelled Tate murals.
Turning to the United States, Bartle Bull argues that Donald Trump — for all his many domestic flaws — has been most effective foreign policy President since Reagan and Oliver Wiseman shows that money has not been all it was cracked up to be in American politics. At home, our diverse reporting includes Alexander Larman on the sacking of the libraries and Josephine Bartosch on the rise of sexbots. Former museum supremo Charles Saumarez Smith asks why today's museum directors have lost faith in their institutions' mission.
Also, Daniel Johnson writes on the Vienna Circle, Rosie Whitehouse on the last Ladino speaker, Dominic Green on Ronnie Scotts, Louise Perry on kink, Tibor Fischer on cryptocurrency; Patrick Galbraith on Grayson Perry's contribution to shooting, Christopher North on death and bullfighting, Jonathon Green on murder, Patrick Bishop on fishing, Hannah Betts on the joy of PJs and Joseph Connolly on the many things he has never done. Plus Andrew Roberts, DJ Taylor, Helen Dale, Guy Walters, Norman Lebrecht, Anne McElvoy, Sarah Ditum, & Lisa Hilton amongst many others.
Our Artists in Residence: Adam Dant paints a map of Ruritanian Europe and Miriam Elia reimagines Shock-Headed Peter for the age of Covid.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in The Critic January 2021.