Ellis Cashmore
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- Sep 13, 2026
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Lindsay Clancy Killed Her Own Children. Is She to Blame? (opens the original)
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This article saved into your bookmarks. Click here to view your bookmarks. Never has a murder case been so dependent on subjective reaction. Whatever anyone says, the facts do not speak for themselves. Fact: On January 24, 2023, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children — Cora, aged five, Dawson, three and Callan, just eight months old. Fact: She then jumped from a second-story window in an attempt to kill herself. Fact: She survived but was left paralyzed from the w
Why Was Zolani Tete Killed? (opens the original)
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This article saved into your bookmarks. Click here to view your bookmarks. Zolani Tete was almost home. On Friday evening, August 21, the former world boxing champion sat in his car in Mdantsane township, South Africa, waiting for the gate to his residence to open. Two men wearing balaclavas emerged from another vehicle and opened fire. Tete tried to drive into his yard but took several hits and died at the scene. A 27-year-old woman traveling with him was also shot several times and remains hos
Trump, Arday and the Art of the Blag (opens the original)
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This article saved into your bookmarks. Click here to view your bookmarks. What kind of future are we headed towards? Increasingly, it looks like a place where politics is dominated by egomaniacs with scant regard for realpolitik or any other kind of political reality, while academia is populated by Walter Mitty characters who fantasize they’ve completed Nobel Prize-winning research and rate themselves in the same league as Charles Darwin, Karl Marx or John Maynard Keynes. Politics and academia,
Would Nixon Survive Watergate Today? (opens the original)
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This article saved into your bookmarks. Click here to view your bookmarks. For over half a century, Richard M. Nixon has been the personification of a bad president and Watergate a byword for political corruption. In 1974, Nixon was forced into an ignominious resignation, forever becoming America’s political bête noire. His administration’s involvement in the break-in and wiretap at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington’s Watergate complex — and the cover-up that followed
From X-Ray Specs to AI-Powered Glasses: The End of Privacy? (opens the original)
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This article saved into your bookmarks. Click here to view your bookmarks. In the 1950s, mail-order advertisements offered an extraordinary invention: X-Ray Specs. For only a dollar, customers could acquire “scientific optical principles” that appeared to allow them to see through flesh and clothing. The product ad typically sat next to ads for stink bombs and itching powder. This novelty product touted absurd claims, but a profoundly human fantasy backed the joke: the desire to see and, by impl
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