The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control. Its real, undeclared purpose was to…
Since 2013, the Feminist Frequency series Tropes vs Women has been an important voice in examining and reshaping how female characters are portrayed in video games. Featuring executive director Anita…
You are not doing this for the sake of art; you are doing this because you want to feel relevant again. Well, guess what, there is an entire world out…
Introduction In what follows, I will offer the best picture I can of the character of liberalism as a set of political theories, given that there has never been a…
If you’ve been on the internet for long enough, you must have seen at least one joke or meme about mental health. BuzzFeed alone seems to publish a list of…
Earlier this month, a flurry of tweets, an onslaught of think pieces and a blast of cable news fury have heralded the arrival of two new media martyrs, both anointed…
Left-wing liberals who are opposed to the identity politics developments on the left increasingly find ourselves accused of being right wing, referred to as “right wing” and scornfully urged to…
Maybe it came in the form of racism or sexism, such as in the cases of Roseanne Barr, Quinn Norton, or Sarah Jeong. Maybe it was someone whose jokes were…
At the end of a 1940 essay on Charles Dickens, George Orwell described his subject as a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open…
Twitter has proven an exceptionally useful platform for me. Through my activity there, I have made new real life friends and interacted with people from all walks of life and…
On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom held a historic national referendum on its EU membership. When I dropped my own ballot paper into the box, it had a cross in…
Even the most attentive observer could be forgiven for failing to keep up with the extent of the anti-Semitic scandals currently engulfing Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.
It is in our nature to anthropomorphize. Most of the time, this tendency is fairly harmless, but when it leads us to prioritize the welfare of pets over other humans,…
Scott Adams, creator of the popular comic strip Dilbert, trained hypnotist and erudite public commentator, posed what may seem like an odd question on his blog last year: “why do…
Today cultural Marxism, or “post-modern neo-Marxism” as it is sometimes called on days when one doesn’t care about aesthetic grace, is often invoked as a boogey man by many conservative…
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the…