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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Culture & Media
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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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One Book to Rule Them All: The Enduring Popularity of The Lord of the Rings
A commercial for Amazon’s forthcoming TV series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, aired during this year’s Super Bowl, racked up a record 257 million views online…
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Nostalgia in Video Games
The video game industry and video gamers are in a peculiar bind. Depending on who you ask, gaming is either more popular and profitable than ever, in spite of the…
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Dysfunctional Families and Luxury Beliefs: A Conversation with Rob Henderson
In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia spoke to Rob Henderson about his turbulent upbringing, the culture shock that was university for him and why he…
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Censoring Joe Rogan
I remember when Joe Rogan was a just a weed-fuelled, combat-sports-obsessed podcast host mainly seen on YouTube—and not trending on CNN every month. However, he’s now a podcasting superstar with…
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Evil Orcs: Accusations of Racism in Dungeons and Dragons
In the 1980s, the popular role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) was hit by a moral panic that lasted into the 1990s: some people became worried that, because some of…
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Joe Rogan’s Controversial Guests
Joe Rogan is no stranger to criticism. His popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience has hosted divisive figures like Alex Jones and Gavin McInnes; he has discussed conspiracy theories ranging…
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