Skewering the absurdities of our age. Making sense of the ideas behind them.
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What the Hell Happened to Amnesty International?
Welcome to The Gadfly Dispatch – a weekly collection of notes and shorter arguments on politics, culture and whatever else has caught my attention.
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I’m firmly in middle age, and the signs are all...
Britain Asks New Arrivals Not to Rape Anyone, Please
Plus: struggle sessions, academic freedom and social media exhaustion.
Welcome to The Gadfly Dispatch – a weekly collection of notes, observations and shorter arguments on politics, culture and whatever else has caught my attention.
Educated Beyond Common Sense
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I’m wary of calling people I disagree with stupid because, first, I am stupid in any number of ways and, second, “you’re stupid” is not, by itself, an argument. A decade ago, we saw the managerial class...
Jason Arday and the Idiocy of the Intellectual Class
Suppose you were a black professor at a prestigious university, someone of genuine intellectual distinction who earned every inch of your career through talent and relentless work. Yet you can’t quite shake the feeling – is it paranoia? – t...
The World's Stupidest Sentence is Now the Tallest
How borrowed feelings do the thinking for us.
A few weeks ago, a Russian couple climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in New York, a feat of genuine bravery and skill. I’m not sure which laws they broke in the process, or whether...
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