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How Evil Is Mark Zuckerberg?
A Review of "Careless People" by Sarah Wyn-Williams
Apr 4 • Ian Leslie

March 2026

Giving Advice Is a Treacherous Business
It Can Go Wrong In So Many Ways
Mar 28 • Ian Leslie
Against Introspection
What Marc Andreessen Got Right (and Wrong)
Mar 21 • Ian Leslie
Is the Current Gulf War Taking Place?
What the Post-Modernists Got Right and Wrong
Mar 14 • Ian Leslie
How To Build Your Own Tower
And Why You Should (Plus What I've Been Reading/Watching/Listening to)
Mar 7 • Ian Leslie

February 2026

33 Things I Heard At Foo Camp 2026
A Report From the Knowledge Frontier
Feb 28 • Ian Leslie
A Deep Dive Into 'I Feel Fine'
A Two-Minute Microcosm of Twentieth Century Pop
Feb 21 • Ian Leslie
Pitfalls of AI journalism
A Cautionary Tale
Feb 19 • Ian Leslie
Bodies Behaving Badly
A Guest Post by Aled Maclean-Jones (plus a bumper Rattle Bag)
Feb 14 • Ian Leslie
Centrism's Anger Problem
It's Hard To Be Reasonable When People Are Furious
Feb 7 • Ian Leslie
NEW PODCAST: Why Do We Keep Getting Education All Wrong?
A Conversation with Carl Hendrick
Feb 5 • Ian Leslie
54:30

January 2026

George Eliot's Blind Spot: Middlemarch, Lookism and Beauty
Sex and the County
Jan 31 • Ian Leslie
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