Tamsin isn’t interested in more useless dead-end stories and in this ‘long read’ she presents her conclusion that all the talk about Russians and their influence on election propaganda is a red herring, not simply because it’s unlikely but because it wouldn’t matter if it were 100% correct.
“KIlling Time” is a short poem (of sorts) written in June 2016 at the height of a certain mindset that’ll be familiar to some and, mercifully, alien to most.Read More
Circumcision is the norm in America but not in Europe for a few reasons. It has been common across the Islamic world but discouraged by Russian Orthodox Christians since the middle ages. At the start of the 19th century circumcision was not widespread but as the Victorian age got underwayRead More
I am doing a thing a certain way. Someone else queries whether that’s the best way If I haven’t given their counter advice any thought it may be better. If I have tried their way but found it was worse my way remains better so advice about my way it’sRead More
“It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States.
In all the furore of retrograde agenda-driven analysis and accusation that followed the local elections of May 3rd 2018, there doesn’t seem to be a single commentator or politician able to see the wood for the trees and call it like it is: an apt reflection of the thinking andRead More
Germaine Greer Modern Guardian Hijack Feminism for the Lumpen Bourgeois Dunning Kruger smart folks manifested Mention the Buckley – Cambridge Union – 70s furore. Fascism Guardian leftist prediction 20 years ago. Germaine Greer calls for punishment for rape to be reduced https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/30/germaine-greer-calls-for-punishment-for-to-be-reduced Germaine, your shock-jock musings just í today’s youngRead More
What is it about smart educated minds that’re American that makes dynamic optimism and exceptionalism; why does this tend towards linear engineering but away from lateral artistry?Read More
Advice from resident Newslegion curmudgeon on how to get through the confused smokescreen of news, gossip and crafted hypernormalisation without being lost in an endlessly distracting cycle of event response event response.
According to Steven Pinker, the world is actually getting better. Pinker uses history and statistics to outline world trends that position progress within a broader context. With all of the data Pinker has collected, he suggests the world is actually getting better. Is it?Read More
Agoston, our scheming biologist, shares some of his thoughts on aging – and specifically middle age – and wonders why the things that were once simple passions seem to fade, as if life itself is like a great song that starts beautiful but soon loses its magic as it gets overplayed…
“What I’ve observed in the past is when my brain is depleted of certain resources, it gets tetchy at things sensory, scatty at things psychological. At best it’s malaise. Not anxious or black depressive. Just nothing. Stasis.”Read More
F.J. Wexler is our resident literati and in this short piece, he thinks about why rhyme seems memorable and why poetry remains relevant in a world of prose.