Forget About Overpopulation, Soon There Will Be Too Few Humans
The more people there are, the more solutions to problems will be found.
Maarten Boudry
· 8 min read
Robert Sapolsky is Wrong
A new book about free will fails to offer an original argument or make a convincing case.
Stuart Doyle
· 13 min read
The Kind of Man Your Mother Warned You About
Why women love true crime.
Robert King
· 10 min read
Who Should Fund Science?
The notion that governments should fund science is built on falsehoods.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 17 min read
Faking Hope: AI Art as Propaganda
There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art.
Julia Friedman
· 8 min read
A Roman Trauma
In the fourth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the Visigothic sack of Rome in 410 C.E.
Herbert Bushman
· 17 min read
Destiny of Earth
Muthukrishna’s new book presents a fundamentally optimistic narrative, brimming with ideas and concepts.
Razib Khan
· 6 min read
An Eye for the Jugular
A new documentary looks back on the life and work of satirist, novelist, and New Journalist, Tom Wolfe.
Thomas Doherty
· 11 min read
Betraying Their Maverick Roots, Fringe Festivals Have Become Ideological Gatekeepers
A former artistic director of the Nanaimo Fringe Festival describes how transgender activists engineered her ouster.
Bryony Dixon
· 10 min read
British and Black
Contemporary antiracism imposes an American framework that distorts our understanding of racial issues in different countries.
Ralph Leonard
· 12 min read
Champlain Goes to War
In the thirteenth instalment of our series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes the crucial battlefield alliance that French explorers forged with Indigenous allies in 1609.
Greg Koabel
· 26 min read
The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash
“The deep end is the best place to learn to swim.”
Iona Italia
· 19 min read
Hollywood Autocrat
A newly restored Blu-ray release of ‘Foolish Wives’ offers a welcome reintroduction to one of cinema’s most gifted and eccentric artists.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 12 min read
The Male Obsession with Ancient Rome
We are all Rome’s children. Its legacy is everywhere we look.
Stewart Slater
· 9 min read
Columbus Day: A Fraught Celebration
The world is better than it would have been had we remained isolated from each other—even for Native Americans.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 7 min read