If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
Did you think I wouldn’t be able to tell? I can tell.
Culture
Numb at the Lodge.
Sam Kriss on politics, culture, and long-form critical essays.
Recent essays
23 of 23Reading is magic
What will happen in our second peasanthood
Is my writing too wet?
In defence of gloop
Who wants to save the UK?
Four sensible suggestions
You'll regret it
About nothing it is hardly worth while to waste a word
How to read Numb at the Lodge
A guide
The century of the maxxer
Incredible things are happening in America
Good and evil in Iran
I forgot I was a king’s son, and became a slave to their king
Prophecies for 2026
Isn't there something deeply extravagant about stupidity?
Do you believe in society’s lies?
Santa Claus, Jeffrey Epstein, witch doctors, and the propaganda model of the world
What's the point of words?
There is no such thing as philosophy
The world’s first matcha labubu genocide
When did we stop caring about Sudan?
Numb at Burning Man
Only one thing has ever happened
The soil falling over my head
Reviewed: One Battle After Another (film, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025) Eddington (film, Ari Aster, 2025) Your Party (debacle, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, 2025) Zack Polanski (leader of the Green Party, Philip and Ava Paulden, 1982) The left (ordinal direct…
Three years of apathy, lassitude, and failure
If a mad dog isn't shot eventually it gets self-indulgent
The whispering ones
An epilogue
Against truth
Also against rationalism, utilitarianism, AI, and Eliezer Yudkowsky in particular
The law that can be named is not the true law
On secret societies, civil wars, Palestine Action, and the word of God
In my zombie era
The third stage of culture in the age of infinite information
What is Europe?
A secret history of the world
Lessons in violence
A hostage situation
An island of strangers
The end of England
Douglas Murray, gruesome toady
Reading the man without dignity