Ancient Warriors and Modern Footballers: An Evolutionary Explanation for Homophobia
Although pernicious in any form, prejudice against gay people is not evenly distributed. Men hold more anti-gay attitudes than women, and these attitudes are particularly directed toward gay men rather…
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Hindu-Muslim Tensions in the UK
The violence that unfolded in Leicester in the late summer of 2022 was undoubtedly tragic, especially for the local South Asian communities who have shared the city for decades.
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Claire Lehmann: Riding Out the Media Storm
In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to the indomitable Claire Lehmann of Quillette about the magazine’s place in the intellectual landscape, its biggest controversies, the audience…
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Why Everyone Is a Little Bit Queer
Queer, before it was associated with the LGBT community, meant simply: strange, peculiar, unusual, out of the ordinary. Implicit in this meaning is the fact that most people, in most…
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Mistress of Murder
In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to Kat Rosenfield about her novel, You Must Remember This and about nostalgia, suspense and the process of writing. The…
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Why Young Americans Are Rejecting the Social Contract
There have been some major shifts in US politics over the past few years. Once-sacrosanct ideas like free speech are now being dismissed as far-right. A desire for socialism is…
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Advancing Our Knowledge About Sex
Bisexual people, transgender individuals, adult babies and diaper lovers, furries, gynandromorphophiles (men attracted to trans women with penises), pedophiles, voluntary eunuchs and straight crossdressers—I have studied them all. To what…
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A Leftist Defence of Monarchy
Among people of my generation and political proclivity, monarchism is generally viewed as a reactionary position. Many of my peers find the Royal Family a deeply embarrassing institution: an expensive,…
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Cute Authoritarianism
Something sinister is going on with cuteness. Over the last five years, we’ve seen the sudden appearance of cute Facial ID Recognition surveillance, cute government health messaging, cute military propaganda,…
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The Colour Purple: Bisexual Representation
In the past few years, a phenomenon I call purple washing has grown uncomfortably common. Even though the term is new, the practice of selectively representing bisexual people and issues…
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Why Trigger Warnings Won’t Help (and May Harm) Vulnerable People
Most of the time, humans can overcome adversity. Most recover from even the ugliest traumas and vilest human experiences—war, rape, domestic violence, natural disasters—without lasting psychological damage. Remarkably, we have…
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Nev March: History and Mystery
In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to novelist Nev March about her latest book, Peril at the Exposition, an intricately plotted and lushly descriptive historical…
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Transcending Race
A Review of Kenan Malik’s Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics (Hurst Publishers, 2023) Race remains one of society’s great delusions. It is modern civilisation’s most enduring superstition.…
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Why You May Not Be as Kinky As You Think
At one time or another, everyone has discovered that being told not to do something only serves to make us want to do it even more. It is a basic…
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Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty: Aesthetics and the Perception of Accuracy
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” —John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819) In recent decades, empirical studies…
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Feminist in the Streets, Chauvinist in the Sheets: Politics and the Bedroom
When my wife was in graduate school, it gave her enormous pleasure to go to class with her arse so sore from my spankings that I stayed on her mind…
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Artificial Intelligence, the Public and the Pope
According to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research report by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo, 50–70% of changes to wage structures in the US over the last four decades…
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The Depressing New Corporate Metaverse
A Review of Luis Bravo Martins’ and Samantha G. Wolfe’s Metaversed: See Beyond the Hype (December 2022) The term metaverse was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 sci-fi novel…
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