The Dictated features the writers of the Strix reading the featured articles from our site. Topics include politics, culture, the arts, and history.

Turning the Tide: The Futility of Anti-Globalisation and the Need for a Pragmatic Radicalism

La La Land Left me Flat by Ellen Halliday

For the Strix.com

The shocking rise of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United states has popularised one particular accusation; the charge of demagoguery.

Citizens of Nowhere by Lewis Gordon Miller

A review of Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen

2Q16: The Age of Post-Fact Politics by Nicholas Barrett

The Necessity of Hope by Jeff Cahlon for thestrix.com

Never Trump Never Mind by Jeff Cahlon

Nicholas Barrett ponders Donald Trump and Brexit with the help of Albert Camus and the Myth of Sisyphus

A review of the Power Paradox by Dacher Keltner

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The Monster and the Other: reading gender in Victor Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive by Olivia Arigho-Stiles