On his podcast this month, Joe Rogan, accompanied by his guest Chris Williamson (neither of whom, it goes without saying, are qualified economists or experts of anything other than spewing nonsense — Williamson is a self-professed “podcaster, Youtuber, and club promoter”), claimed that “The Biden Administration Redefined Recession.” A change…

In 1969, a woman named Norma McCorvey, known by the legal pseudonym “Jane Roe”, became pregnant with her third child. Living in Texas, where abortion was illegal save for instances of medical complications that could kill the mother, McCorvey had her lawyers file a lawsuit in the U.S. federal court…

How A Small Croatian City Laid the Foundations for Fascism Our story begins with a man: Gabriele D’Annunzio, an Italian playwright, poet, journalist, author, aristocrat, army officer and war hero. In 1919…D’Annunzio became a dictator. When World War One began, D’Annunzio, a self-proclaimed ‘Superman’ (having been inspired by Nietzsche’s Ubermensch)…

The debate over what free will is, and whether or not it exists, extends back to ancient philosophy. From the dawn of a man, we have questioned whether choice is an illusion, whether we really want to make a cheese toasty, or whether our decisions are pre-ordained and controlled by…

British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has been making headlines today as it is understood he is pushing a major upheaval of the monetary system in the UK, with a digital version of the pound, dubbed ‘Britcoin’ — an official government crypto-currency, otherwise known as a Central Bank Digital…

Man, people love Elon Musk don’t they? You know, the funny meme man, the real life Tony Stark. Musk has such a weird sycophantic following. God he’s so great, with all his talk of space travel and renewable energy and self-driving cars — a true pioneer. He’s always doing something…

Artificial Intelligence is the technically hypothetical possession of intelligence or thought by computers, machines and androids. Artificial intelligence may be an inevitability in the real world, but with this eventual breakthrough will come questions on how these artificially intelligent ‘beings’ should be treated. The question has already begun to be…

2020 was bleak, wasn’t it? I think this last year has made us realise how bad things can get, and things are only gonna get worse. Yes, the vaccine rollout has been tremendously successful and this whole pandemic thing seems to be coming to an end soon (fingers crossed). But…

My articles tend to be focused more on politics and philosophy, and though I have written theatre reviews (not on Medium) and music reviews (on myself and my friend’s podcast That Film You Like), I thought today I’d diversify a bit. I absolutely love video games; when I’m not writing…