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Areo is a digital magazine that provides insights and commentary on important topics, focusing on areas such as humanism, reason, science, politics, culture, and human rights. Named after Milton's work defending free speech, Areopagitica, Areo features well-researched essays from a wide range of viewpoints that align with liberal and humanist ideals. We emphasize articles grounded in evidence and rational thought. Our contributors come from diverse intellectual, professional, and ideological backgrounds, including liberals, conservatives, socialists, libertarians, atheists, and those with religious beliefs. Areo strives to steer clear of divisive tribal views, instead fostering a culture of intellectual fairness, kindness, honesty, and thoroughness.

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Against the Death Penalty

Sep 19, 2023 | areomagazine.com | Ralph Leonard

The last execution in Great Britain took place in 1964, but Tory politicians still periodically raise the possibility of reinstating capital punishment in tub-thumping speeches designed to convince the public that they are tough on crime. In an interview with the Spectator in February of this year, Conservative Party Vice-Chairman Lee Anderson made it clear that he would support the return of capital punishment.
Questioning the Dream of a United Europe

Aug 17, 2023 | areomagazine.com | Ralph Leonard

Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani (2023). A review. The dream of a united Europe has a long and deep history. In its modern form, it originated in nineteenth-century bourgeois thought and was advocated by a wide range of thinkers, including Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini and Victor Hugo. European unity was a liberal enterprise, designed to institute a cosmopolitan society and to provide an alternative to national chauvinism and interstate warfare.
The Crazy Culture of Twitter

Jul 27, 2023 | areomagazine.com | Iona Italia

An Interview with Christoph. You can also listen on Spotify here; on iTunes here and on most podcast apps. ShownotesGeneral:Find Christoph on Twitter @Halalcoholism twitter.com/Halalcoholism?ref_s…erp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorReferences:Jonathan Haidt on the podcast. www.stitcher.com/show/tea-for-two…an-mind-57029667The Rise of Victimhood Culture by Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product…SfRoCOcoQAvD_BwECampbell and Manning on the podcast.
Black and British: We're Not American

Jul 11, 2023 | areomagazine.com | Ralph Leonard

A Review of This is Not America. Why Black Lives in Britain Matter by Tomiwa Owolade (Atlantic, 2023). In the popular perception, America is obsessed with race, while Britain is defined by class—but while both stereotypes have some basis in reality, they don’t tell the whole story. America is as class-ridden as any other society, and racial thinking has more influence on British society than people are generally willing to admit.
A Feminist Against Modernity

Jun 6, 2023 | areomagazine.com | Ralph Leonard

Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress (Forum, 2023). A review. “Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).”Karl Marx, letter to Ludwig Kugelman, 12 December 1868. Translated by Donna Torr. Most historians view the 1960s as a decade that changed women’s lives.
Stalin, Putin and the Falsification of History

May 23, 2023 | areomagazine.com | Andy Owen

Patriotism corrupts history.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1817)Long before the latest iteration of cancel culture, there was a punishment known as damnatio memoriae (the condemnation of a person’s memory).
Treacherous Allies: Why Anti-Wokes Should Reject the Religious Right

May 9, 2023 | areomagazine.com | Gerfried Ambrosch

Since they are united in their opposition to wokeness, secular liberals and the US religious right often find themselves on the same side of the current culture war. While it can be commendable to put minor political differences aside for the sake of a common cause, it would be a grave mistake for the secular liberals in this coalition to turn a blind eye to the motivations of their new allies and let anti-wokeness become a Trojan horse for illiberal religious morality.
Gerfried Ambrosch

May 9, 2023 | areomagazine.com | Gerfried Ambrosch

Posts by authorGerfried Ambrosch 12 posts Gerfried Ambrosch is a heterodox academic, writer and musician with a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies.
Claire Lehmann: Riding Out the Media Storm

May 5, 2023 | areomagazine.com | Claire Lehmann |Iona Italia
It's Class, Not Race

May 4, 2023 | areomagazine.com | Robert Lynch

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. — Mark TwainIn 2018, Raj Chetty and his colleagues published one of the largest studies of social mobility ever conducted. By combining census data with information from federal tax returns, they were able to analyse the wealth of almost every family in the US from 1989–2015. Their results were unequivocal. The biggest obstacle a child faces in America is having being born into a poor family.