Sam HarrisonFirst as tragedy, and then again as tragedy: Palestine and the reactionary depoliticisation of…In recent years, there has arisen a kind of popular historian that produces public-facing historical works for a specific audience. The…Oct 29, 20231Oct 29, 20231
Sam HarrisonNormal People is bad, actuallyWhen I read Normal People last year, I instantly hated it. More than that, I found it actually repulsive. Unusually, I could also…May 11, 20202May 11, 20202
Sam HarrisonLabour’s Brexit position isn’t ‘unambiguous’. That’s because it’s not stupid.Brexit can’t be resolved with easily-digestible three-word slogans: unlike the Lib Dems and the Conservatives, Labour’s plan promises to…Sep 22, 2019Sep 22, 2019
Sam HarrisonThe answer is not a codified constitutionBoris Johnson’s rogue prorogation raises a large number of questions. Are we justified in calling it a coup? What, if anything, can the…Sep 5, 2019Sep 5, 2019
Sam HarrisonThe politics of death and survivalCamus argued that the only real philosophical problem was suicide: that is to say, the immediate problem before human beings is to justify…May 12, 2019May 12, 2019
Sam HarrisonThe cult of facts and the road to authoritarianismThe intellectual historian Arthur Oncken Lovejoy used to believe that history moved not through a linear progression, nor entirely at…Aug 6, 2018Aug 6, 2018