Tom Whyman
The New York Times
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Opinion | How Can I Justify Bringing New Life Into This Terrible World?
In a time of Covid-19, climate change and catastrophe, having a baby is an act of radical hope. → Read More
The British government is massively fucking up its coronavirus response
They only just realized their first plan to simply let people die had some issues. → Read More
Only an idiot would dismiss ad hominem arguments
The internet’s most maligned so-called logical fallacy is actually a pretty useful way to reason. → Read More
Why the media keeps handing over their wallets for inspection
Often it pays to be credulous. → Read More
Will we will ever be free of Pete Buttigieg?
The myth of electability has forced him on us all, and he’s going to have to be stopped over and over again. → Read More
‘The Irishman’ looks like shit and that’s why it’s brilliant
The failure of its de-aging technology transforms what might’ve been a plodding, overlong film into a masterful meditation on memory and fate. → Read More
Are we all members of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement?
The desire for humanity to go extinct seems crazy, but it may also be the dominant ideology of our time. → Read More
The “where’s my elephant?” theory of history
Isn’t that what we’re all asking in our own lives? → Read More
Roger Scruton helped make things worse
The British philosopher is being widely eulogized as a man of noble mind and generous heart. Hardly. → Read More
The crucial difference between Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn
Sanders, blessedly, is capable of being a bit of a dick. → Read More
“The Gang Fixes 10 Downing Street”
UK political advisor Dominic Cummings has a plan to reimagine the civil service, and it sounds strikingly familiar. → Read More
The 2010s are Jolyon Maugham, and we are all the fox he beat to death
Why would a once-respected lawyer tweet about beating an animal to death? The answer will not surprise you. → Read More
The Trevor Bastard Extended Universe is modern art
The very weird, very online project was wrongly targeted by Twitter because of people who didn't get the joke. → Read More
Luxury is shit
The future of communism should not involve gold toilets for all. → Read More
It is perfectly moral to bring children into a shitty world
We will not defeat climate change by having less of a stake in the future. → Read More
Yaaas the literal Queen
Deepest apologies, but Britain’s withered avatar of unaccountable power and plunder is not a sassy bitch. → Read More
Much ado about Greta
Why does one Swedish teenager manage to drive so many pundits off the deep end? → Read More
We the undersigned would like philosophy to remain quite useless
A recent op-ed in the ‘New York Times’ argues, foolishly, that philosophy is in danger of becoming too political. → Read More
Can I be objective about the beauty of my son?
Traditional aesthetics cannot account for his sweet little face. → Read More
I thought I would feel hopeful in a crisis
But when my partner had an emergency C-section, I felt something else. → Read More