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Hello, Obligatory shilling. For my Substack subscribers, I wrote about Howard Stern and boomers, All Saint’s Day in Poland, paedophiles in British culture, being mobbed on Twitter, social change, bad arguments against British policing, effective altruism
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Everyone remembers when Bari Weiss, in 2018, wrote an article for the New York Times that profiled an emerging phenomenon known as “the Intellectual…
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I sometimes wonder what it would be like to view mankind from above. Mostly rather boring, I imagine. Just a bunch of people tapping at computers…
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Controversy erupted online this week after the high class fashion brand Balenciaga released adverts that had — well, that had kind of a pedo vibe…
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A friend of mine knew a philosopher who was miserably convinced that he should give up philosophy and become a banker so he could make a lot of money…
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Corey Junior Davis was standing with a group of young men in a park in Newham, London in 2017 when a car pulled up and a gunman opened fire. “CJ” was…
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When did all the famous people take those stupid monkey pictures off their social media accounts? Everyone from Jimmy Fallon to Eminem was rocking a…
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I know what you’re thinking. No, I am not going to talk about how I’m a victim, or about my trauma, or about how this is what journalists have to deal…
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