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Why is the Art of the Essay important?

Today The Market Herald launches Art of the Essay, a new column dedicated to commentary, analysis, and…

The incoherence at the heart of anti-westernism

Enemies of the west see it as an oppressor and a decadent pushover at the same…

He’s sorry, she’s sorry, everybody is sorry. Does it matter?

We are swimming in a sea of public contrition, where everyone’s sorry and at the same…

Silicon Valley has learnt little from Elizabeth Holmes

Making big claims remains the starting point for new companies.

Cathie Wood’s breathless promotion of gene editing should worry us all

Overstating the promise of emerging fields threatens to skew valuations and progress in the biotech sector.
  • David Crow
  • 18 February 2022 13:58 (EDT)
  • 3 minute read

When did ‘me’, ‘we’ and ‘us’ become the media’s preferred pronouns?

Why should the private lives of media executives be a matter of public interest to anyone?

Joe Rogan and the lost boys

Today’s young men are hungrier for guidance than my cohort ever was.

If everything is ‘trauma’, is anything?

"Love bombing", "gaslighting", "emotional labour". On the pathologising of everyday behaviours.

The awesome importance of imagination

Imagination helps you perceive reality, try on other realities, predict possible futures, experience other viewpoints.