Overview Upstream contains a wide range of essays and books in digital form, together with links to similar material on the Internet, book reviews and reading lists.
Political correctness is a dominant theme, but the scope is far wider.
The topics range from philosophy to politics, economics, history, art, and literature. Affirmative action, race, IQ, feminism, patriarchy, postmodernism, liberalism, conservatism, science, nonsense and many other hotly contested issues are covered. Much of the discussion on these topics is currently generated in the United States, and the material here reflects this - but material on other situations, particularly South Africa, is also covered. Nonethess, the underlying themes are usually universal. According to the Johannesburg street publication Homeless Talk, a betting shop in England was held up by a man wielding a plastic lemon squeezer.