Vanity Fair article on the Trump White House was brutal, merciless and invaluable
Close-up photographs serve as reminders of the power of the image and of magazine journalism
It was like watching the housing crisis covered by a future Reeling in the Years
The problem with the Department of Housing video is not the video itself, but rather the fact that the department thought it a good idea
I would not quite say I admire Enoch Burke, but I do find him weirdly impressive
The trick with ‘Jailed Teacher Enoch Burke’ is to appreciate it for what it is: an innovative masterpiece of pure spectacle. If it ever ends, we’ll miss it
ICC judges wanted Netanyahu arrested. Now they’re being targeted by Trump
US sanctions making normal life impossible for International Criminal Court officials who issued war crimes arrest warrants
The belief that technology could allow us to speak to the dead is deeply human
The more advanced our technologies become, the more effectively they channel primordial desires, terrors, delusions
Mark O’Connell: You’re not on the right side of history – there is no right side
‘History’ has become final arbiter of rights and wrongs, a secular ‘you better get right with Jesus’
Elon Musk’s view of pre-immigration Ireland: Lovely small towns full of ‘hobbits, frankly’
On Joe Rogan, Musk conjured up a vision of phalanxes of swarthy paedophiles descending on the bucolic villages of Britain and Ireland
Piotr Torng was held in the Dublin city morgue for six months. No one came forward
Most obvious and troubling example of our ability to ‘unsee’ is surely our capacity not to see the homeless
‘Here’s me,’ Trump is saying, ‘a literal king, shitting on your democratic protest’
Paradoxically, the video is far more legible as satire of Trump than it is as a satire by him
The Enhanced Games are about something far weirder than money
The Enhanced Games is a shopfront for a strange vision of the human future
No, you don’t need a cortisol detox. Why are we so addicted to the new language of therapy?
People buy into a chemical understanding of human psychology when really what they’re describing is our deeply complex, irreducibly mysterious inner life
Golf thuggery is a thing now. Why are we so surprised?
How long before we see football-style ultras detonating smoke bombs along the 18th fairway, Portmarnock casuals beating rival hooligans with nine irons in the carpark of the K Club?
There is too much content, too much culture - and that’s just the stuff made by us humans
It’s time someone invented a slop filter
‘That was my first elimination’: IDF snipers are blind to the humanity of their victims
International law explicitly prohibits attacking unarmed people, and people who are retrieving bodies
I should enjoy watching the ritual humiliation of Silicon Valley’s top CEOs. But not like this
I found myself asking what had happened to the concept of f**k you money – but only momentarily