Ben Sixsmith

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  • Sep 30, 2025
    When I was young — which wasn’t all that long ago — Saudi Arabia was a byword for Islamist tyranny. Its exports seemed to be petrol and terrorists, and...
  • Sep 25, 2025
    The Guardian’s Archie Bland is concerned about how mainstream the term “Boriswave” has become. It is, Bland says, a word coined and spread by...
  • Aug 7, 2025
    Reports that SiriusXM is set to part ways with Howard Stern, with the broadcasting corporation allegedly being unwilling to keep paying the radio star’s massive salary, will no...
  • Jul 28, 2025
    The most essential ability in professional wrestling is the ability to make people care. You can be the biggest wrestler, or the most average wrestler, or the most technically gifted...
  • Apr 2, 2025
    In Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard asks what it means to live an ethical, fulfilling life and decides, more or less, that it means being like the philosopher Agnes...
  • Mar 18, 2025
    Brace yourselves. The masculinity books are coming. What is wrong with men? With Donald Trump’s recent triumph representing the most consequential illustration of a...
  • Mar 12, 2025
    The theory that smartphone use is making people more alienated and uncultured seems so obviously true that it is hard to believe that anybody can deny it. We have little...