Wrestling
Live not by kayfabe
The dark side of professional wrestling is the dark side of institutional life
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
