Katherine Dee
Katherine Dee is a writer at defaultfriend.substack.com
Kanye West and celebrity
Celebrities have always existed to be made examples of
Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
The final death of left v. right?
Old political categories are losing their value
Murders for July
The most gripping and grisly detective novels of the month, from Devon to Orkney
The fall of the House of Rejoin
A popular cause has withered into an elitist dinner club
Woke invades the sciences
The intrusion of irrational ideology is distorting and censoring science
Women can have short hair, too
Pseudo-progressives are resurrecting gender stereotypes
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
Our attitude towards MPs is inconsistent
We hate career politicians, but we want politicians to focus entirely on their career
The BBC can be a drag
The priorities of its reporting, especially on gender issues, can be absurd
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
JD Vance’s tech policy is a MAGA microcosm
Does JD Vance hope to restore the Jeffersonian tradition of freedom?