Gonzo Bros
Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.
Frank Celia
· 29 min read
Media
A collection of 59 posts
Heterodox Radical
A new collection of Murray Kempton’s articles reveals a thoughtful journalist whose politics were difficult to categorise.
Ron Capshaw
· 9 min read
Feelings, Facts, and Our Crisis of Truth
What we lose when the rigour of science and journalism gives way to an aural and visual narrative culture.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
A New Dark Age?
Political scientists have always extolled the ideal of the informed voter, but information has become a cacophony.
George Case
· 9 min read
Spurious Research as Tendentious Propaganda
A scholarly journal published pro-Palestinian activism dressed as dispassionate media analysis—and then refused to retract the paper after its shoddy methodology was pointed out.
Oliver Kamm
· 12 min read
REDnote and the TikTok Refugees
If they manage to stay on REDnote long enough, former TikTokers will surely begin to notice that all is not as it seems in modern China.
Aaron Sarin
· 6 min read
How the Media Broke the Immigration Debate
What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?
Tomás Sidenfaden
· 11 min read
Sanitising a Paranoid Crank
Misleading and irresponsible journalism is being used to launder the reputation of RFK Jr.
Matt Johnson
· 10 min read
An Unscientific American
Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology.
Michael Shermer
· 12 min read
Why Is Most Journalism About IQ So Bad?
It is easy to create a negative image of intelligence research because most people know very little about the topic. But distorting intelligence research does a disservice to the field’s hard-working scientists and the general public.
Russell T. Warne
· 13 min read
Kremlin Cash
The Tenet media scandal and the convergence of right-wing American punditry and Russian propaganda.
Cathy Young
· 9 min read
Unilateral Illiberalism
Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview with Vladimir Putin shows that he will never pose a threat to despotism.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
The NYT Misrepresents the History of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
A welter of factual errors and misleading judgments has produced a distorted description of the 1948 War.
Benny Morris
· 12 min read
The Seven Laws of Pessimism
If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?
Maarten Boudry
· 16 min read
Lights Out in America
The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read