February 13, 2020

Why Incels are the losers in the age of Tinder As a society we still judge men who don’t have sex as failures

James Bloodworth

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‘Cultural Christian’ is an empty idea When non-believers take the cross they are really talking about in-groups and out-groups

Mary Harrington

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Sex-obsessed conservatives are wrong about families Don't look to the bible for proof that God prefers a nuclear family — his table is extended and inclusive

Giles Fraser

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America’s rich and powerful will believe anything Psychics, mediums, astrology and aura readings — the country's tech elite have some very strange interests

Daniel Kalder

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Kirk Douglas and the cult of Hollywood’s bad boys The film business still buys into 1950s tropes about strong men and submissive women

Tanya Gold

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Are we too obsessed with sex? Sex is intellectually tedious and barren, according to the incoherent and reactionary <I>Why Sex Doesn’t Matter</I>

Zoe Strimpel

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Why arranged marriages make sense The idea of marrying for love hasn't been a very successful innovation

Ed West

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How daughters turn fathers into feminists Sometimes it does take fatherhood to turn on men's empathy-valve

Tom Chivers

11.02

Why we should be worried about coronavirus This crisis probably won't kill us all; but sooner or later a pandemic is bound to wipe out the human race

Peter Franklin

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Sinn Féin’s triumph is a victory of forgetting The exultant party doesn't want to disown its IRA past; it wants to selectively celebrate it

Jenny McCartney

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Another nauseating night at the Oscars Grievance, moral purity and overblown egos have turned award ceremonies into hypocritical freak shows

Gareth Roberts

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What Boris Johnson could learn from Emmanuel Macron There is an increasingly post-liberal drift to the French President's strategic vision

Aris Roussinos