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.

Why are progressives so afraid of Right-wing comedy?

16 May 2022

Western media should not repeat Ukrainian propaganda

15 Mar 2022

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

16 Feb 2022

Joe Rogan is bigger than Spotify

31 Jan 2022

No one should cheer Rachel Riley’s libel triumph

21 Dec 2021

Jack Dorsey’s resignation is bad news for free speech

30 Nov 2021

Come to Poland, Jeremy Clarkson!

19 Oct 2021

There is less pressure to have children than ever before

11 Oct 2021

How grannies became the new frontline activists

21 Sep 2021

The danger of fetishising foreign lands

16 Sep 2021

Curtis Yarvin schools Tucker in ‘neoreaction’

09 Sep 2021

The Taliban’s meme war

24 Aug 2021

It’s time to welcome back Louis C.K.

06 Aug 2021

The meaning of the Speaker’s Corner stabbing

26 Jul 2021

John McAfee: America’s last real wild man

24 Jun 2021

Why ‘Blackout Tuesday’ changed nothing

01 Jun 2021

Another rich sportstar fails to stand up to the Chinese

25 May 2021

Why the atheists turned on Dawkins

23 Apr 2021

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

09 Apr 2021

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

12 Mar 2021

Andrew Cuomo’s shame should be shared by the media

05 Mar 2021

Eating disorders aren’t only about body image

01 Mar 2021

It’s time to stop blaming boomers

18 Jan 2021

Poland’s rise to cultural power

05 Jan 2021

Nick Clegg’s ‘global internet’ is a fantasy

08 Dec 2020

Andrew Cuomo is not a hero of this pandemic

24 Nov 2020

Inside the chaotic mind of Kanye West

27 Oct 2020

Jordan Peterson returns from the desert

21 Oct 2020

Hypocrisy is not the worst thing on earth

08 Sep 2020

Why American lives matter most

25 Jun 2020

How to survive in an over-complicated world

12 Mar 2020

Where are Britain’s conservative philosophers?

17 Jan 2020

How Global English became a source of division

04 Dec 2019

What my Polish town taught me about localism

07 Oct 2019

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

01 Jun 2018