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Hatred and Indifference in Modern Australia

Examining Australia’s leadership vacuum in the wake of the Melbourne synagogue firebombing.

Claire Lehmann

8 Dec 2024 · 5 min read

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Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’

University of Western Ontario instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a UWO tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights.

Jonathan Kay

29 Nov 2024 · 24 min read

Laura Helmuth is a middle aged white woman in a suit with long grey-blonde hair.

An Unscientific American

Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology.

Michael Shermer

21 Nov 2024 · 12 min read

Two black female Kamala supporters look sad and console each other.

The Centre Must Rise

No centrist who understands the current moment has ever truly laid out their case to the Democratic Party base in the context of a serious political campaign. It’s time to change that.

Jack Despain Zhou

13 Nov 2024 · 8 min read

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Podcast #262: Interintellect and the Modern-Day Salon

Podcast #262: Interintellect and the Modern-Day Salon

Iona Italia talks to globetrotter and intellectual magpie Anna Gat about her modern-day salon, Interintellect.

Quillette

6 Dec 2024 · 36 min read

Pixelated Statue of David.

The Recline of the West

Since the 18th century, the very process of innovation was uniquely institutionalised in the West. That is now precisely what is being globalised.

Lawrence Cahoone

6 Dec 2024 · 18 min read

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The Eerie Beauty of ‘Flow’

Gints Zilbalodis’s beautiful dystopian story feels like the start of a new era in cinema, or at least the invitation to one.

Roy Wayne Meredith III

4 Dec 2024 · 5 min read

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Games and Thrones

The real history of the era portrayed in Gladiator II is much more interesting, tumultuous, and murderous than Scott’s simpleminded yarn.

Charlotte Allen

4 Dec 2024 · 13 min read

RFK Jr. is an elderly white man with ruddy skin and blue eyes. He is speaking at a podium, wearing a suit.

Sanitising a Paranoid Crank

Misleading and irresponsible journalism is being used to launder the reputation of RFK Jr.

Matt Johnson

3 Dec 2024 · 10 min read

A statue of a horse with a man riding it is climbed by rebels flying a white and green flag.

The Weak Horse

Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.

Brian Stewart

3 Dec 2024 · 8 min read

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Megalopolis: Bloated, Outré—and Brilliant

Adam Driver as Caesar Catilina and Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero.

I’m Tired of the Victimhood Narrative

Lidia Thorpe has light tanned skin and earrings that say "sovereignty never ceded." She looks angry. Zoe on a couch.