Ben Sixsmith

Ben Sixsmith is an English writer living in Poland. He has written for Quillette, Areo, The Catholic Herald, The American Conservative and Arc Digital on a variety of topics including literature and politics.

@bdsixsmith

Ben Sixsmith is an English writer living in Poland. He has written for Quillette, Areo, The Catholic Herald, The American Conservative and Arc Digital on a variety of topics including literature and politics.

Why are progressives so afraid of Right-wing comedy?

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Western media should not repeat Ukrainian propaganda

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

P.J. O’Rourke: a brilliant satirist undone by the Trump era

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Joe Rogan is bigger than Spotify

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

No one should cheer Rachel Riley’s libel triumph

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Jack Dorsey’s resignation is bad news for free speech

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Come to Poland, Jeremy Clarkson!

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

There is less pressure to have children than ever before

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

How grannies became the new frontline activists

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

The danger of fetishising foreign lands

BY Ben Sixsmith / 5 mins

Curtis Yarvin schools Tucker in ‘neoreaction’

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

The Taliban’s meme war

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

It’s time to welcome back Louis C.K.

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

The meaning of the Speaker’s Corner stabbing

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

John McAfee: America’s last real wild man

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Why ‘Blackout Tuesday’ changed nothing

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Another rich sportstar fails to stand up to the Chinese

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Why the atheists turned on Dawkins

BY Ben Sixsmith / 5 mins

The key to anti-ageing? Why not try draining the young… again

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

The Mash Report: too Left-wing or just not funny?

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Andrew Cuomo’s shame should be shared by the media

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Eating disorders aren’t only about body image

BY Ben Sixsmith / 5 mins

It’s time to stop blaming boomers

BY Ben Sixsmith / 6 mins

Poland’s rise to cultural power

BY Ben Sixsmith / 5 mins

Nick Clegg’s ‘global internet’ is a fantasy

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Andrew Cuomo is not a hero of this pandemic

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Inside the chaotic mind of Kanye West

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Jordan Peterson returns from the desert

BY Ben Sixsmith / 2 mins

Hypocrisy is not the worst thing on earth

BY Ben Sixsmith / 5 mins

Why American lives matter most

BY Ben Sixsmith / 5 mins

How to survive in an over-complicated world

BY Ben Sixsmith / 5 mins

Where are Britain’s conservative philosophers?

BY Ben Sixsmith / 4 mins

How Global English became a source of division

BY Ben Sixsmith / 5 mins

What my Polish town taught me about localism

BY Ben Sixsmith / 5 mins

Poles apart: what’s driving Poland’s populism?

BY Ben Sixsmith / 4 mins