1 Jan 2026 - 12:02am

How to navigate the Year of Slop You’ll need an intellectual toolkit

Gurwinder Bhogal

01.01

Can social democracy save capitalism — again? But don’t count on the Left

Joel Kotkin

31.12

Can Canada keep its independence? The country’s greatest thinker foretold its failure — and ours 

George Dunn

31.12

New York is headed for disaster Zohran Mamdani isn’t ready for power

Poppy Sowerby

31.12

The triumph of anti-art Our century is defined by anaesthesia

Sam Jennings

31.12

How to survive the Machine age EM Forster believed in humanity

Jacob Howland

31.12

Britain’s free speech paradox The law has become incoherent

Jonathan Sumption

30.12

2025, the year we took the red pill Unplugging from the matrix has begun 

Ryan Zickgraf

30.12

The CIA: patron of the arts The best Cold War critics were found in Foggy Bottom

Ryan Ruby

30.12

Why women hate Lena Dunham Hating her is its own micro-industry

Sarah Ditum

29.12

John Quincy Adams never stopped fighting His diaries reveal an anti-slavery obsession

William T. Vollmann

29.12

Will China win the AI race? The CCP does capitalism better than America

John Rapley