Section: Essay

We must become barbarians

BY Paul Kingsnorth / 10 mins

Why do progressives watch porn?

BY John Maier / 5 mins

The Taliban’s lessons in masculinity

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

The music-hall depravity of British politics

BY Alwyn Turner / 8 mins

How Russia and China overtook the West

BY Thomas Fazi / 6 mins

Tucker Carlson’s fake populism

BY Michael Cuenco / 8 mins

America is showing its age

BY Adam Smith / 6 mins

Who are the strikers fooling?

BY Terry Eagleton / 6 mins

Black gold fuelled the Iraq War

BY Helen Thompson / 7 mins

How football outgrew the BBC

BY Jonathan Wilson / 6 mins

Why philosophers are so weird

BY Kathleen Stock / 6 mins

Does the Right need techno-Trumpism?

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins