What Keir Starmer Gets Right About "Adolescence"

There are some things you can't legislate for

Apr 3 • 

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Raise Against the Machine #4: Non-Fungible Families

On the limits of adaptability and interchangeability

Apr 1 • 

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February 2025

Anons of Hope and Glory?

Taking their cue from MAGA, the time of the British right-wing anons is at hand (PLUS: special free trial offer!)

Feb 21 • 

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Are we allowed to be disgusted by homosexuality?

Thoughts on Kristie Higgs' pyrrhic free speech victory

Feb 14 • 

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CROSSPOST: The problem with Labour's home-school crackdown

My latest piece for The Spectator

Feb 11 • 

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January 2025

My Letter to a Headmistress About a Transgender Teacher

The transing of kids is ending in the USA. Parents, let's do it in the UK too.

Jan 29 • 

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The Good Samaritan at Rotherham

When the Wrong People care

Jan 24

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WATCH: My lecture on C.S. Lewis, sensory pleasure, and the eschaton

From C.S. Lewis Institute NI's 2024 "Lewis and Last Things" symposium

Jan 17 • 

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Joe Rogan, Left-Brain

Or, why he doesn't know who Hegel is

Jan 14 • 

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Join me for a "Life on the Silent Planet" livestream tonight!

8pm UK time/3pm US Eastern Time, on The Optimistic Curmudgeon podcast

Jan 9 • 

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13 Novels I Read in 2024 (and 1 I've Started in 2025)

A review of my first year of regular novel reading in a decade

Jan 7 • 

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December 2024

The Possibilities of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey

Re-enchantment? Technocracy? Creaturely hubris?

Dec 31, 2024 • 

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