The Crazy Culture of Twitter
An Interview with Christoph. You can also listen on Spotify here; on iTunes here and on most podcast apps. Shownotes General: Find Christoph on Twitter @Halalcoholism twitter.com/Halalcoholism?ref_s…erp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor References: Jonathan Haidt on…
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Alexander Dugin’s Cosmic War
I share the vision of René Guénon and Julius Evola, who considered modernity and the ideologies derived from it—individualism, liberal democracy, capitalism, and so on—to be the causes of the…
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Black and British: We’re Not American
A Review of This is Not America. Why Black Lives in Britain Matter by Tomiwa Owolade (Atlantic, 2023). In the popular perception, America is obsessed with race, while Britain is…
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Marxism: The Idea that Refuses to Die
It’s been almost a century and a half since Karl Marx’s death, and decades since the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and elsewhere. In the still nominally…
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The Case for Central Carbon Banks
In a speech to the 1989 UN General Assembly, Margaret Thatcher proclaimed: “the problem of global climate change is one that affects us all and action will only be effective…
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Hood-Adjacent: Place and Class in Black American Life
It would be wonderful to live in a world without labels or stereotypes. But it is impossible to analyse complex widescale social trends without thinking in terms of broad categories…
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A Feminist Against Modernity
Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress (Forum, 2023). A review. “Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be…
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The Consciousness Conundrum
Consciousness is among the greatest outstanding scientific mysteries. We have no direct way of telling whether a given being is conscious and therefore have to rely on basic induction. We…
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Stalin, Putin and the Falsification of History
Patriotism corrupts history.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1817) Long before the latest iteration of cancel culture, there was a punishment known as damnatio memoriae (the condemnation of a person’s memory). First…
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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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Compassionism
As Angel Eduardo writes, the word woke “has lost all useful meaning when it comes to communication between people on opposite sides of the culture war.” We do, however, need…
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In Defence of Tinkerers: Why We Need Open AI
The release of large language models like ChatGPT has led to a lot of speculation about a possible new technological revolution. Some regard these AIs as a deflationary cure for…
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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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Treacherous Allies: Why Anti-Wokes Should Reject the Religious Right
Since they are united in their opposition to wokeness, secular liberals and the US religious right often find themselves on the same side of the current culture war. While it…
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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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It’s Class, Not Race
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. — Mark Twain In 2018, Raj Chetty and his…
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Christopher Hitchens, the Conservative Marxist
How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment by Matt Johnson (2023). A review. There has been a gaping void in our political and…
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Demystifying Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory (CRT) originated in higher education, but its political relevance has become more than academic, especially in the United States. Although CRT sprung from legal scholarship, proponents have…
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