Life
How to define a dog
The variousness of dogs has ever been a leitmotif of dictionary discussions
Notes on…riding
We have forgotten not just the use of horses, but also their value to our wellbeing
Shepard Smith’s last moments at Fox News
‘Under our agreement, I won’t be reporting elsewhere, at least in the near future’
CNN’s LGBT Town Hall collapses into trans madness
In its quest for every gender on the spectrum, the network couldn’t even find a single top to stuff into the audience
Hipsters are getting high on an alcohol-free cocktail
Kin has become popular as swatches of America veer towards sinless living and self-care
Don’t blame oil and coal companies for climate change
If climate change is a crisis, or even just a challenge, it is one in which we are all implicated
Syria’s Christians are suffering in silence
The Assyrians hang in limbo
Why Roy Cohn is not one of the world’s most evil men
He may have had a gruff exterior but I always thought he was gooey inside
A work of pure, undiluted genius
Succession reviewed
Puritanism is back…and welcome to it
Martyrdom has become ‘inclusive’
Why do Americans and Brits write about alcohol so differently?
American drink writing tends to be self-flagellating: the recovering alcoholic’s remembrance of sins past
I am a part of Batavia, New York
My friend Henry W. Clune used to say that all he ever really wanted was to appear considerable in the eyes of his hometown
Hillary beat Trump once, she can do it again
Imagine waking up each day, knowing that a strong empowered woman was in the White House
Facebook’s fake news problem is about more than just ads
Chris Hughes’s attack on his co-founder won’t stop the spread of misinformation
Would UBI actually work in America?
There is an ill-defined and naive hope that UBI will solve whatever particular political bogeyman is brought to the party
The gilded rage: why is America so angry?
Most Americans now believe it is ‘healthier’ to unleash their negative feelings than to bottle them up
Space is the place – for war
Foreign hackers have broken codes that are integral to the effectiveness of satellites
Impeach Boris Johnson
Boris makes enthusiastic speeches, which is an obvious parallel to the speeches Mussolini made
Grade A: what Adderall has taught me
‘Come to think of it, no. I’ve never had a patient, once prescribed, go off them’
The alternative media has censorship problems too
It is not especially unusual for figures in the alternative media to use the power of law to silence criticism
Rednecks are the least racist people in America
I didn’t even know racism was a thing until I moved to New York and my socioeconomic betters told me so
OK so the ‘eating babies’ woman may have been a hoax, but is it really such a terrible idea?
Mockery of any kind is worse than bombs
Greta Thunberg is no genius – she’s an apostle
She just repeats the same simple message again and again
Young recycling zealots are talking trash
I’m tired of being guilted by people who only recently learned to tie their shoelaces
Paul Dacre on the British media, courts and David Cameron’s ‘drug taking’
‘I know what this is all about — it’s Brown trying to expose my drug-taking.’
