WRITING

Modernity’s Patching Up (On Leszek Kołakowski) — Portico Quarterly

Consciousness Researchers Are Tripping — Commonweal

The Interaction Problem — Genealogies of Modernity

The Real Crisis of Literacy — We’re Reading Too Much — The New Statesman

Our Modern Split Personality Disorder — Genealogies of Modernity

Review of Mood Machine by Liz Pelly — Commonweal

Why We Have No New Ideas — The Critic

Are We Really Living in a Materialist Age? — The Hedgehog Review

Review of Believe by Ross Douthat — First Things

Music in the Prison of History — Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis

Revenge of the Real — The Spectator

Review of Reality+ by David Chalmers — The Times

Our Moral Language is Not Okay — The Critic

On Humourlessness — The New Statesman

Who’s Afraid of Organoid Intelligence? — The Spectator

Read for Pleasure — The Critic

AI and the Disintegrating Imagination — The Critic

The Wellcome Collection’s War on Itself — The Spectator

Review of The Fight for Privacy by Danielle Keats Citron — The Times

The Apocalypse Complex — The Spectator

Review of Like, Comment, Subscribe by Mark Bergen — The Times

Good and Evil on the New Frontier — The Critic

Cracking Consciousness — The Spectator

Review of The Quiet Before by Gal Beckerman — The Critic

Review of Sweat by Bill Hayes — The Times

Will Our Future Lives be Like a Video Game? — The Spectator

The Rise of the Neoclassical Reactionaries — The Spectator

Are We Ready for the Metaverse? — The Spectator

Review of Human Frontiers by Michael Bhaskar — The Critic

We Need to Talk About Transhumanism — The Spectator

Review of The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari — The Critic

The Fundamental Truths of Fiction — The Critic

The Musical Prophets that Could See Into the Future — The Critic

Irony Poisoning — ArcDigital

The Culture Wars Have Turned London into a Patchwork of Political Cliques — The Telegraph

The Unsurprising Rise of AI Art — The Critic

Why We Need a Common Faith — The Critic

The End of a Free Internet Could Come Sooner Than You Think — CapX

The Culture Wars Ruin Everything - We Need Conscientious Objectors — ArcDigital