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Phrenology and IQ tests: the far-right revival of discredited race science

Resurging interest in theories of racial exceptionalism is turbocharged amid nuance-light world of social media

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2025

Unleash your masculine energy the Mark Zuckerberg way!

Meta’s CEO frets that too much ‘feminine energy’ is neutering the corporate world. Fear not, this handy guide can help

The Guardian - US · Jan 18, 2025

10 books culture editor Hannah Silver recommends this winter

Lacking inspiration over what to read next? Wallpaper* culture editor, Hannah Silver, shares her favourite books

Wallpaper · Nov 7, 2024

Friday essay: matrilineal societies exist around the world – it's time to look beyond the patriarchy

Thirty years ago, I travelled to Lijiang, an ancient city in the northwest of China’s Yunnan province in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas. Lijiang’s old town is a tangle of intersecting waterways, arched stone bridges, and cobbled streets. Just north of the city – about five hours by road…

The Conversation · Mar 23, 2023

The Patriarchs by Angela Saini review – why it’s still a man’s world

Saini’s stirring, all too timely study of patriarchy asks how such inequality took hold, and persists, even while some matrilineal societies flourish

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2023

The Patriarchs by Angela Saini review – the roots of male domination

A scientific and historical survey of patriarchy shows that there’s nothing inevitable about it

The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2023

Who made you king of everything? Angela Saini on the origins of patriarchy

The journalist has written acclaimed books tackling race science and gender inequality. Next up, the patriarchy – which is neither natural nor inevitable, she argues

The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2023