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How would you write a completely unbiased encyclopedia article about the violence currently occurring in Gaza? I mean completely unbiased. I want you to bracket off and ignore every opinion you have about it whatsoever. Not taking anyone’s side. Nobody is wrong or right. Just the sterile facts. What
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As our technology has vastly overshot what resources we’re able to acquire with our meaty fingers alone, we’ve put stresses on our bodies that the slow pace of evolution hasn’t prepared us for. Or, in building our bodies for scarcity, we have been granted traits that make
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So I’m going to talk about this book again. I wasn’t going to, because my whole thing was that I could review it accurately without ever reading it. But more has come to light since it was actually released, and that is that somebody did read it. Namely,
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Of all the slogans that were thrown about during the 2024 US election I think the one that frightened the Republicans the most was Kamala Harris’ threat that “we’re not going back.” What the right wants more than anything is to go back. That’s what it is, at
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As the Trump administration continues its full and unapologetic assault on the First Amendment the usual suspects are forced to admit through gritted teeth that maybe Trump and his people aren’t the free speech absolutists they pinky-promised that they were. This has triggered so many Substack essays as
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I’ve developed a sense of unease whenever I see a young white man with a shaved head. I know that’s not fair. Some guys look great bald. I have friends who do it. It’s not an unusual style. It’s not a square moustache or a sonnenrad
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Month nine (year 30? 50? 100?) of the Trump presidency, and already a number of books are coming out about how woke is over now thanks to the good work Trump has done to stamp it out, and given the timeline of publishing, any book that’s coming out now
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This isn’t the piece I had planned to run today, but sometimes something, uh, comes up. I’m on vacation and so I’d prepared some shorter than usual pieces and some reruns. This is a rerun, but not one I had prepared. It needs a new introduction, which
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The Eastern origins of anonymous Western online culture
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On 13th of September, British white nationalist Tommy Robinson is planning a rally in London. He’s not calling it a white nationalist rally, of course, he’s calling it a “free speech festival.” He also says they’re going to topple the government. He says it’s going to
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Through the bullet hell of bad news that has been the past couple of months, something that chilled my blood while flying deftly under the radar for most people was a couple of weeks ago when Glenn Greenwald came out in support of Nick Fuentes. I don’t have a
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Recently I went into hospital for a routine endoscopy, allegedly. I’ve had it done before, so this time I knew what to expect, but the first time was before I’d ever heard of “twilight anaesthesia.” For those who are as unfamiliar with hospital knockout drugs as I was,