Inclusion
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Trans-corporate
For the CEO transitioners, womanhood was embraced sometime after the wife and the corner office
Badmission procedures (w/ Kittie Helmick)
Schools are more than resources to be distributed
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
Small talk and big asks
Men’s mental health is a serious matter — but it is wrong to expect people to be lifesavers
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future