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Life is utterly meaningless, but this is a great opportunity to have fun creating our own meanings—that’s the latest postmodern self-help mantra. The trend known as optimistic nihilism is a ...

A Conversation between Alex Byrne, Holly Lawford-Smith and John McLaughlin John: What is the phrase assigned sex at birth (ASAB) meant to convey? Does it imply that the recording of infants’ sex is ...

Over the last few weeks, there’s been a growing storm over the claims of some that the Covid vaccines are unsafe, that ivermectin is an unjustly suppressed miracle drug and related concerns. Much of ...

Something sinister is going on with cuteness. Over the last five years, we’ve seen the sudden appearance of cute Facial ID Recognition surveillance, cute government health messaging, cute military ...

A few years into my American life, I took a class on western thought. The only philosopher on the syllabus familiar to me was Karl Marx, and he wasn’t why I’d signed up: I’d had enough of him in the ...

In 1964, US President Lyndon B. Johnson made a historic request: he wanted a large-scale, nuclear-powered desalination programme to address the growing need for potable water in the American Southwest ...

Critical Race Theory (CRT) originated in higher education, but its political relevance has become more than academic, especially in the United States. Although CRT sprung from legal scholarship, ...

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It’s a favourite among Fortune 100 companies, government agencies and regular people. More than 1.5 million people ...

Until recently, the Rosenberg, Texas pound was typical of many American shelters, killing roughly 70% of its animals. The leaders of the shelter did not see it as their responsibility to change this.

Many conservative pundits love to attack Karl Marx without really engaging his work in any depth. This is unfortunate since Marx deserves high calibre critics—and once received telling critiques by ...