Hal Conte
Hal Conte writes at his Substack and tweets at @conte_hal
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
After the Cass Review
Our elected politicians need more independence from partial lobbyists
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?