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The Death of English Literature

The best books I read in 2025

The rise and fall of homo sapiens, MAGA civil war, my favourite Christmas playlist, Nabokov in Montreux, the meditations of John Donne

The decline of deviance, the age of stupid, how envy drove cancel culture and why we're never going to outer space

Cancel culture memories, the monks in the casino, what it's like to be 16 in 2025 and the problem with critical thinking

How co-evolution shapes societies, how victims took over politics, Frederick the Great's downtime and the photography boom

How humans are like AIs, love and death in poetry, cinema addiction, cognitive populism, Knausgaard on Dostoevsky

We are the weirdest people in history, online relationship advice is getting worse, and my favourite Auden poem

Hunter gatherer psychopaths, everything is television, comedy in Saudi Arabia, Larkin on Tennyson, why all successful podcasters are right wing

Maybe AI won't take your job yet, how democracy is killing democracy, you are a prey animal, social media has peaked, when London was a third world city

How to spot AI writing, the death of zombie art, the first tech bubble, out of touch politicians and RIP Tony Harrison

How AI slop is killing the workplace, colour-coded fish sex, new dumb phone, the consumer choice revolution, Judith Butler vs Plato, and the art of candle light

How to read a painting with Bendor Grosvenor

The dawn of the post-literate society

Are books getting stupider?, you are 93% predictable, Blueskyism, the age of over-diagnosis

Alpine holiday, Rousseau's birthplace, suicide as a bargaining tactic, progressives don't have kids, the life of Richard Dawkins, my favourite film

Notes on genius, the new dark ages, the 2008 theory of everything, Baby Grumpling, the stupidogenic society

New atheist cringe, hunter gatherer social life, rule by lawyers, origins of Google, the most worthless degrees

The end of the age of reason

A YouTube Education

Links and quotes: liberalism in overdrive, smooth earth theory, how your phone is stealing your life, AI academics, Mahler

Links and quotes: decline of serial killers, arranged marriage, balloons, comrades, Madame de Sévigné, broken Britain

Interesting links and quotes: cat massacre, Hunter Biden, diamond factory, political gender gap, superiority of C18th

Interesting links and quotes: origin of the fork, Nazi AI, baby boom, Machiavelli, Italian pop

Interesting links and quotes: TikTok politics, social incompetence, the Gutenberg parenthesis, illegal AI chess

The end of white collar work, building the pyramids, the best medieval films and more

Absorbing novels to read on holiday

AI brain rot, the end of history, London Underground hell

Interesting links and quotes

How to be a better reader with Henry Oliver

How to read and why

Can you tell AI from human genius?

Critical Revolutionaries

The world until yesterday

The first communications revolution

My favourite books about the eighteenth century

A few book recommendations

Zooming Among the Absolutes

The Evolution of God

The Ignoble Savage

The Moral Animal

Things I Didn't Know

Ranking the greatest English poets

Are we returning to an oral culture?

A New Novel I Really Enjoyed

The Pursuit of Glory

Sixteen Lessons From Nietzsche

Solitude and creativity

God’s Funeral: The Decline of Faith in Western Civilisation

The dawn of the post-literate society

The best historical novel I've ever read?

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