Thai Colonialism in the Malay World
A spate of deadly shootings in Thailand is just the latest episode in a centuries-long struggle between Thais and Malays.
Imran Said
· 15 min read
Epic Failure
Many of the people involved in Uberto Pasolini’s new screen adaptation of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ are intimidatingly talented. It’s a pity, then, that the film is such a disaster.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 14 min read
A New Dark Age?
Political scientists have always extolled the ideal of the informed voter, but information has become a cacophony.
George Case
· 9 min read
DEI’s Beleaguered True Believers, in Their Own Words
When ‘decolonial change alchemist’ Sabrina Meherally instructed her ‘white allies’ to divulge their pay rates and demographic details, many eagerly complied.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Spurious Research as Tendentious Propaganda
A scholarly journal published pro-Palestinian activism dressed as dispassionate media analysis—and then refused to retract the paper after its shoddy methodology was pointed out.
Oliver Kamm
· 12 min read
Podcast #282: Canada’s Strange Election Season
In advance of Monday’s nation-wide vote, Jonathan Kay discusses Justin Trudeau’s resignation, Pierre Poilievre’s bad luck, the rise of Mark Carney, and the effects of Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian politics.
Jonathan Kay
· 2 min read
All Men Behaving Badly
Just six months after it was released by Netflix, Anna Kendrick’s feminist film about a real serial killer already looks like an ideological relic.
Charlotte Allen
· 23 min read
In Defence of Neoliberalism
The neoliberal turn was a pragmatic response to failed economic intervention and yielded broadly positive results.
Austin O'Connell
· 5 min read
Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance
Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.
Yuki Zeman
· 5 min read
Trump Versus Harvard
The cure may be worse than the disease.
Andrew Gleeson
· 16 min read
A Cartoonish View of History
Joe Sacco’s graphic works provide vivid and moving depictions of the terrible suffering in the Strip. But his accounts of the causes of that suffering are simplistic and one-sided in the extreme.
Benny Morris
· 18 min read
Have We Forgotten Weimar?
This is not the first time Germany has resorted to censorship in the mistaken belief that the state can contain dangerous ideas. The last time they tried this, it facilitated the rise of the Nazis.
Jay Sophalkalyan
· 12 min read
When Do Scholarly Retractions Become a Form of Censorship?
Focusing on the handful of papers that are retracted for political reasons can obscure the more important problems afflicting the field of academic publishing.
Ivan Oransky
· 12 min read