Sensible Marks of Ideas

Islam, Islamism, Islamophobia

When the word “Islamophobia” first made it onto social media, my wife asked me what it meant, and I gave an answer along the lines of “Well, you know…

Aug 3 • 

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July 2025

June 2025

What I've Been Up To: Meaning, Murder and Media

What I’ve Been Reading

Jun 28 • 

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April 2025

Phones and Screens

How Categories Lose their Usefulness

Apr 10 • 

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January 2025

December 2024

Bilimin Barbar İsimleri

[This is an attempt at translating one of my earlier posts into Turkish]

Dec 24, 2024 • 

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Wittgenstein, MAGA and the Woke Chimaera

How family resemblance can help understand political tribes

Dec 8, 2024 • 

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November 2024

August 2024

Miscategorising the World

"Free World", "Third World" and other bad ways to think about the world

Aug 31, 2024 • 

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June 2024

What I've Been Up To (China Edition)

I normally try to write one “proper” article between the “What I’ve Been Up To” posts, but I wanted to write this while my China trip was still fresh in…

Jun 9, 2024 • 

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February 2024

What I've Been Up To: Texting with God and other theological things

This episode has ended up being rather God-themed - apologies to my atheist friends.

Feb 11, 2024 • 

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December 2023

"Adult Female Human"

A Study in Sex and Categorisation

Dec 16, 2023 • 

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