Homo Mobilis
Home, we are often told, is where the heart is. However, this adage admits of varying readings. Does it mean that there is a particular geographic location for which each…
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Altered Carbon: An Interview with Author Richard Morgan
In this episode of the Two for Tea podcast, our editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to novelist Richard K. Morgan about his classic novel Altered Carbon, which raises philosophical questions about the…
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Against the Sexual Revolution: An Interview with Louise Perry
In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to writer Louise Perry about her new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex…
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Gender Policing on the Left
What makes a man, if not masculinity? What makes a woman, if not femininity? These questions arise out of modern feminist theory, where scholars first drew a distinction between biological…
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Queer: A New Narrative
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.—Ludwig Wittgenstein When early twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote the above quotation, he was cautioning readers that…
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Rainbows and Hypocrisies: LGBT Activism in Football
In recent years, international sport has become immensely commercialized and professionalized. But these trends have undergone rapid change with the intervention of woke activism. People from all walks of life…
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Reasons to Be Jubilant
On 2 June, I travelled down to London to attend one of those unusual events that somehow manage to be at once an embodiment of the stereotypical idea of what…
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What’s Possessed Us? “The Story Paradox” by Jonathan Gottschall
Many movies feature characters with dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder. But when researchers combed through all the psychiatric records from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for…
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Ancient Archetypes and Modern Superheroes
Nothing is said that has not been said before.—Terence, Eunuchus. We live in an age of superheroes. In every one of the past five years, with the exception of 2020…
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Ricky Gervais and the Manuel Problem
The only thing more predictable than the transphobic jokes in Ricky Gervais’ new Netflix special, SuperNature, was the criticism they elicited.
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Surviving Dave Rubin’s “Don’t Burn This Country”
January 15th, 2019 was the night I got wasted on a livestream downing shots of Patron. It was also the time I accidentally disclosed my private, personal, email address to…
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The Acme of New Hollywood: The Godfather
The Godfather is one of the greatest films ever put on the big screen. Few films come close in terms of storytelling, technical filmmaking, acting, ambience and drama to this…
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Revolutionising the News
In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to news junkie, entrepreneur and free speech aficionado Arjun Moorthy about his venture The Factual, which provides news to…
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A Series of Unfortunate Misunderstandings: Rafia Zakaria’s “Against White Feminism.”
Rafia Zakaria’s Against White Feminism begins with a story. She has been invited to a “warm and cheerful” Manhattan wine bar, but worries that the women she is with will…
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The Fame Trap: Gen Z, TikTok and Influencer Culture
Many young people in the west spend most of their lives in the digital world, hooked up to a source of quick-hit dopamine. This phenomenon has been changing brains and…
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White People and the Conversation About Race
It is always saddening when reasonable, thoughtful people fail to understand each other’s point of view in important conversations. It is even more unfortunate when they fail to respect each…
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Is Postmodernism Neo-Marxist?
What he calls postmodern neo-Marxism is one of Jordan Peterson’s favourite bugbears—even though, by his own admission, the only Marxist work he has read is the Communist Manifesto and in…
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The Curious Case of a Scholar Who Didn’t Exist
In 1988, Princeton admitted Alexi Indris-Santana into its class of 1992. An autodidact who herded cattle by day and taught himself philosophy by night, Santana was also a talented distance…
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