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Scandalous Monogamy and Faithful Infidelity

On eros and marriage.

Marilyn Simon

14 Feb 2025 · 12 min read

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President Donald Trump holds up an executive order

Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution

Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.

Thomas F. Powers

8 Feb 2025 · 44 min read

Donald Symons as a young man. Black-and-white phot

Sage of Sex and Psyche

Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).

Steven Pinker

4 Feb 2025 · 12 min read

Two firefighters, next to a fire truck, by the side of a highway, across from a blaze.

Three Hard Truths About California’s Fire Crisis

Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive, unpopular measures.

Claire Lehmann

12 Jan 2025 · 7 min read

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Podcast #272: The Great Divergence

Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary about why he believes evolved differences between the sexes have been growing more salient in western societies.

Quillette

14 Feb 2025 · 24 min read

Peanuts in Perspective

Peanuts offered parables of existential angst and longing, described through small stories about the small affairs of small people.

George Case

13 Feb 2025 · 7 min read

Protestors carry signs reading “CCP is watching you. Stop the mega embassy.”

How Hong Kong’s Struggle Came to Britain

Conflict is brewing between Hongkongers who have made the UK their home and a Communist Party that wants to make the UK its vassal.

Aaron Sarin

13 Feb 2025 · 8 min read

Australian Healthcare’s Darkest Hour

The NSW nurses have not just threatened individual patients—they have desecrated what it means to be Australian.

Claire Lehmann

12 Feb 2025 · 4 min read

A crowded street in which protestors hold umbrellas.

The Evisceration of Hong Kong

From laissez-faire to lèse-majesté: an embarrassment in four fits.

Geoff Privisant

11 Feb 2025 · 13 min read

Sticking to Reality

Humankind’s propensity to believe convenient fiction is as old and strong as our propensity for war. The United States needs to adopt a pragmatic deterrence strategy.

Gary Geipel

11 Feb 2025 · 6 min read

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