Secularism isn’t ready for He Jiankui
In November 2018, He Jiankui broke the mould. Two days before he was scheduled to speak at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, the MIT Technology Review announced that He had been responsible for editing the genomes of two twin girls born a few weeks prior. Although his p
Parody Personal Statement
Here commences the Personal Statement of the Right Honourable Patricia Eustacia Dalton-Ward, intended for the study of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, college irrelevant. As the scintillating sun reached its zenith on a warm summer’s day, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
GUILLOTINE: Dog ownership is creepy
Dogs are eroding the fabric of modern society. Well, not intentionally. But they are everywhere. You’ll bump into an acquaintance in the bar, make small talk, get chatting. You’ll assume that you are enjoying the company of another ordinary, right-minded in
Putting the fiction back in fiction
Despite the havoc that the ‘spell pharaoh’ video wreaked in 2021, in the internet age, it is impossible not to define yourself by the media you consume. Eventually everybody will find themselves on #BookTok, or [insert cursive font here] film Twitter, or one of the millions of K-Pop Faceb
Bush!—The Dreampolitik of Comic Purity
Bush! The Musical by The Mollys Productions had the last show of its run at the Moser Theatre, Wadham College on Saturday 31 May, 2025 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the Internet in the turbulent year of 2022. In the final days of Weimar […]
‘Bops’, the new right, and woman-hating
I have deleted the Instagram App from my phone. In clearing my life of useless information (like photos of beloved family and friends, and the activities of my peers), I have found the space to devote my attention to what really matters; the Snapchat Explore page. Snapchat’s
GUILLOTINE: Stop killing fictional Nazis
Nazi soldiers get a hard time in the movies. They’re Hollywood’s cartoon villains; from Indiana Jones to Inglorious Basterds, we love to watch those frankfurter eating fascists get blown to bits, battered with baseball bats, or, naturally, have their faces melted off. They’ve been writt
The Pitt Rivers and I
I think a lot about the British empire, do you? When I first moved to the UK for university, it struck me immediately that most Brits have, at best, a fuzzy understanding of just how evil their country used to be. This surprised me, considering how extraordinary it is that a tiny windswept is
@grok, why doesn’t he love me?
I love reading people’s texts whenever they happen to be seated close to me. You can judge me for it. I don’t mind. Nevertheless, much to my delight, last month, crammed into a rush hour Paris metro, I was seated next to a young woman who was typing out livid paragraphs at [
