Rob Henderson
Rob Henderson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge, where he studies as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. He obtained a B.S. in Psychology from Yale University and is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He tweets at @robkhenderson
The distinctiveness of human aggression
A review of The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake