Tamsin writes about the atomisation of society into in-group echo chambers, rallying behind some flag or demagogue or slogan, and how social media calcifies this antisocial apartheid.
Wexler is an old curmudgeon and quick to acknowledge this fact. Here he tries to give a little insight into the 1950s beat counter-culture without the caricature bullshit of trying to fit it to some modern narrative.
Tamsin writes about the appropriation of ideology by corporate capitalism, manipulating sincere important paradigms into mere vehicles for delivering sales by vaguely simpatico brands.
As an autodidact, Maggie Hetherington is no fan of the entitled privilege of academic gravy trains. Here she makes a case for intelligence being not a failure in school but failed by traditional schooling.