30 Dec 2025 - 12:03am

2025, the year we took the red pill Unplugging from the matrix has begun 

Ryan Zickgraf

24.12

Can campness save Stranger Things? Viewers have never suffered so much

Matt Feeney

30.10

The empty promise of Friends The sitcom sold a fiction of total connection and freedom

Mary Harrington

03.08

The new paganism of the digital age Erik Davis forecast our era of mystic ecstasy

Rob Doyle

17.01

The annihilation of Michel Houellebecq Purged of venom, his sentimental swan song falls flat

Ann Manov

21.12

The year we gave up on reality Some lies matter more than others

Suzanne Moore

20.12

How we destroyed The Matrix Incels and trans activists are both fooled by its myth

Dorian Lynskey

28.05

How the culture wars came for history Woke historians want to expose lies about the past — even when they don't exist

Dominic Sandbrook

27.05

We can’t be Friends any more The sitcom sold an empty promise of total connection and freedom

Mary Harrington