Technology
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
The devil in the dating apps
Modern technology does not encourage long-term relationships but a spiral of swiping
The common thread of progress
Textile abundance has underpinned the modern world
AI will not satisfy
Human desires tend to be rooted in the human
Does anyone even understand productivity?
Economic measurements can be a lot more complicated than they seem
The genealogy of nuclear fear
How the world turned against nuclear energy and rationalism
We must embrace the AI revolution
Its risks are serious, but its uses could be miraculous
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Don’t let it go
Communal singing is good for the soul
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
The dark underbelly of the sex industry
Advocacy for the idea of sex work has not been matched by advocacy for the exploited
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
