Politics

The meaning crisis, and how we rescue young men from reactionary politics

In the recent US election, male voters overwhelmingly voted for Trump - because he offered them the illusion of meaning in a world where their position is uncertain

2000 mules: why many Americans are convinced Trump won the 2020 election

Ahead of the the American election, there are millions of Americans who still refuse to accept the results of 2020, fed by lies from the misleading film, 2000 Mules

The tyranny of the cloud: how we became serfs to big tech

In ‘Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism’, Yanis Varoufakis gives a whistlestop tour of economic history and where capitalism went wrong

Welcome to the modern American Right – the world that high weirdness built

The 2024 US election campaign has illustrated the ongoing influence of 'high weirdness' in the MAGA movement and modern conservatism

Donald Trump’s debate performance proved he has mainstreamed extreme conspiracy theories

Trump's debate lies showed us a useful truth - just how much of his information he gets from conspiracy theorists and online extremists

Trump’s lies aside, what is the basis for our revulsion at the idea of eating cats and dogs?

Trump falsely claimed immigrants were eating cats and dogs, but we can question the moral revulsion to eating some animals, but not others

JD Vance is right – for anti-intellectuals like him, the professors are the enemy

Professors seek the truth, and the truth is something that politicians like JD Vance fear, because it can reveal their agenda as being fascist.

The UK riots showed why we have to dismantle the far-right’s misinformation machines

The UK riots were powered by misinformation - in plain sight on Twitter, and through racist conspiracy theories in covert Telegram groups
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