12/20/2021 - 12:00am

How we destroyed The Matrix Incels and trans activists are both fooled by its myth

Dorian Lynskey

20.10

Can Steven Pinker save the world? Behaving rationally doesn't always make sense

Boyd Tonkin

24.09

The West has lost its roots The less moored our identities become, the louder we shout about them

Paul Kingsnorth

23.07

The emptiness of open letters With enough signatories, any demand will be fulfilled

Daniel Skipper Rasmussen

21.07

The surprising legacy of the neocons Post-liberals would rather forget their intellectual predecessors

Oliver Wiseman

25.06

Nationalists make better lovers Our toxic political culture needs more Eros

Giles Fraser

06.05

Why do schools treat dyslexics like fools? Neurodivergence is a superpower, not a disability

Giles Fraser

21.01

Scepticism is not always the answer Question life all you want – but it has no meaning without our shared humanity

Giles Fraser

19.01

The American Dream that failed With Western democracy in chaos, John Rawls's utopia remains vanishingly elusive

Dominic Sandbrook

17.09

What cats taught me about philosophy By entering our world, our pet felines have given us a window looking out of it

John Gray

31.10

What’s so unethical about my Jordan Peterson movie? Many people don't like seeing the human side of the polarising professor

Patricia Marcoccia

14.03

Is fasting just an affectation? Hunger is the most fundamental political problem of them all

Giles Fraser