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Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future

Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.

Razib Khan

23 Jan 2025 · 5 min read

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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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Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him

Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state.

Jonathan Kay

7 Jan 2025 · 8 min read

Ahmed Al-Shara is a bearded pale-skinned man. He is speaking into a telephone, wearing army fatigues.

Syria and the Changing Global Calculus

Iran and Russia have suffered serious setbacks over the past year, but grave dangers remain.

Joshua Muravchik

31 Dec 2024 · 19 min read

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We’ve Known It for Years: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs Don’t Work

Corporate America needn’t have waited for Trump or the Supreme Court: The business case for ditching DEI has been sitting in plain sight for years.

David Millard Haskell

22 Jan 2025 · 6 min read

How the Media Broke the Immigration Debate

What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?

Tomás Sidenfaden

21 Jan 2025 · 11 min read

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American Surrealist

A tribute to David Lynch (1946–2025).

Benjamin Kerstein

21 Jan 2025 · 7 min read

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A Home on the High Frontier

Jeff Bezos is inspired by a vision that does not involve living on Mars—or on any planet besides Earth—but inhabiting artificial worlds in free space.