Surviving the Woke Workplace Helen Pluckrose has produced a practical guide to dealing with sticky workplace situations, alongside a clear intellectual account of social justice ideology. Helen Dale 23 Oct 2024 · 9 min read
Taking on the Offendotrons: a review of Russell Blackford's 'The Tyranny of Opinion' I could bang on about offendotrons every week and have to resist the impulse. Helen Dale 28 Jan 2019 · 15 min read
The Divided Kingdom A belief in democracy, in the capacity for governance among “ordinary people,” and a distrust of cognitive elites is what definitively sets populists apart from fascists. Helen Dale 4 Dec 2018 · 15 min read
The UK Labour Party and the System of Diversity The Tribe is an articulate, scrupulously fair but nonetheless root-and-branch attack on the ‘system and administration of diversity’, not only in UK Labour but also in other British institutions, including the civil service and the BBC. Helen Dale 6 Sep 2018 · 18 min read
My Unpopular Opinion: There Are Too Many Mediocre Artists There are too many artists, too many people who want to be artists, most of them aren’t very good, and schools should focus on inculcating self-discipline rather than dopey ‘all must have prizes’ creativity. Helen Dale 21 Aug 2018 · 5 min read
What if the Industrial Revolution Happened to Rome? What, I wondered, would have happened had Jesus emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution? Helen Dale 30 Nov 2017 · 8 min read
Cultural Appropriation Isn't Real Being imaginative is more important for a writer than being from the “right” ethnic background or having the “right” experience. Helen Dale 11 May 2017 · 7 min read
The Changeling — A Review of 'In Full Colour' by Rachel Doležal What it does do – and why it deserves to be widely read – is raise a mass of awkward questions about religion, race, sex, and identity. Helen Dale 27 Mar 2017 · 16 min read
The Runaway Executive ‘Everyone else has to march up East Street in the heat,’ he’d go on, ‘or make arrangements with my pupil’ (that pupil was me). ‘Why shouldn’t they?’ Helen Dale 20 Feb 2017 · 5 min read
Attack of the Offendotrons: Tyranny of the Flash Mob The only way to head mobs off at the pass is for individuals and institutions to resist them. Helen Dale 16 Jan 2017 · 5 min read
