James Lindsay
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Normal Cervix Resumes
The BBC cancels Mermaids, time is racist, Nasa goes woke, and 2 + 2 = 5
Reality has been Cancelled
Helen Dale reviews Cynical Theories, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
It’s good to talk
Louise Perry reviews How to Have Impossible Conversations by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?