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Modern folk beliefs V: “Your ancestors had kids in their teens”
How marriage and family structure really differed across the world in history
Feb 11
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Notes on China’s alternative modernity
Mostly impressive, sometimes eerie
Jan 21
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Why are black people so overrepresented in advertising?
Sarah Pochin, diversity as blackness, and the taboo around honest discussion of asymmetrical multiculturalism
Nov 4, 2025
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Adolescence: a manosphere morality tale
A show so heavy-handed it makes me want to start talking about 'regime propaganda'.
Apr 1, 2025
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On the Folk Beliefs of the Upper Normie: “National identity is just about citizenship”
Where the illusory idea of purely civic nationalism came from, and how it became conventional wisdom.
Mar 23, 2025
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The Politics of Clarkson's Farm
From blokeish Top Gear Clarkson to Tory / Lib Dem 'Lovely Britain'
Nov 17, 2024
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Against the ‘ethnic food festival’ conception of culture
The roots of this idea in social status positioning and in Scott Alexander's idea of universal culture
May 4, 2024
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The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Apr 12, 2024
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Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Feb 5, 2024
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What’s the matter with women?
Perhaps they should be more like men
Dec 28, 2023
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Imagining a respectability cascade on immigration in Britain
"It's just respectable, common sense..."
Nov 28, 2023
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The ‘How The Light Gets In’ festival: Hampstead liberalism distilled
The half hour trudge from Highgate tube station provided me with a fitting lead-up to my recent visit on a Sunday in late September to the ‘How The…
Oct 4, 2023
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