Category: Interesting

Cordyceps unilateralis, colloquially known as the “zombie ant fungus”, is an organism straight out of a horror story. A native of tropical rainforests, the fungus emits spores that attach themselves…

What can be said of British politics over the 10 years precisely separating Brexit and Burnham’s Makerfield ascension? It has been, for those wishing reform of Britain’s sclerotic and increasingly…

Britain’s political journalists have already settled on a narrative for Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham. Starmer, they’ve decided, was simply not a politician. He entered politics late in life and…

Robert Wright is the author of several books that fall somewhere between popular science and original speculation and is the publisher of the consistently interesting Substack Nonzero Newsletter, a lone,…

As Britain reacted to an eruption of anti-migrant violence in Belfast earlier this month, seeing images of burnt-out terraced housing and hearing accounts of African nurses apprehended at checkpoints, a…

Both those who criticize and those who loyally support Trump’s “deal” — it is hardly a sufficiently explicit agreement, indeed it remains vague on the key points — are carefully…

Who would have thought that Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch would find one of its most remarkable manifestations not among the “blond beasts” of Adolf Hitler’s Aryan fantasies, but…

In European history, there is a pattern: every 50 or 75 years or so, the international order of its time, the institutions and the ideas, gradually drift out of alignment…

Every city is a palimpsest, in the pattern of whose streets and buildings, stories etched in the past remain legible. Even when there has been a careful attempt to forget…

Academics need to get out a bit more. That, at least, is the impression one might form from the recently-released report of the Global Justice Project, the fruit of a…