January 2, 2024

33 concepts to survive the year Can you stop the internet making you stupid?

Gurwinder Bhogal

22.11

Rationalists are wrong about telepathy Steven Pinker's denialism reveals the prejudice of the scientific establishment

Rupert Sheldrake

27.05

You’re more biased than you think Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for studying errors — and still makes them

Stuart Ritchie

16.02

When did we give up on persuasion? Culture warriors on both the Left and Right are too scared of changing their minds

Tom Chivers

09.09

Tabloid fake law is not the only fake law The Secret Barrister’s new book on misinformation seems to betray a loss of impartiality

Adam King

18.06

How US journalism lost its spine The media is petrified of showing even mild scepticism of woke orthodoxy

Michael Tracey

03.10

Should we trust AI to hire and fire? Algorithms are just as biased as the humans who create them

Tom Chivers

01.10

Drinking in the madness of social media The pompous asses who populate our public discourse could be straight from a 17th-century coffee house

Gareth Roberts

23.09

How political bias blinds us Ideological cocoons prevent experts from seeing, and engaging with, the wider world. 

Matthew Goodwin

29.08

The truth about the female brain A part of popular science is unthinkingly biased

Saloni Dattani

28.08

Was it The Sun wot won Brexit?

Tom Chivers

21.06

Why should the BBC censor the public?

Douglas Murray