“Nothing Is to Be Feared. Everything Is to Be Understood.”
An interview with Peggy Sastre.
Claire Lehmann
· 14 min read
The Unwelcome Truth about Rape
For their research showing that rape is generally motivated by sexual desire, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer were subjected to death threats and hounded in their personal and professional lives. And yet, they were right.
Peggy Sastre
· 14 min read
Has the Gay-Rights Revolution Gone Too Far for Our Own Good?
The hyper-sexualized nature of many gay subcultures threatens to undo the important human-rights progress we’ve made over the course of my lifetime.
Ronan McCrea
· 10 min read
The BPA Panic and the Distortion of Science
A new article in MIT’s ‘Undark’ magazine recycles old misinformation about a supposedly toxic chemical.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 10 min read
The Truth About South Africa’s Farm Murders & White Exodus
Why are people fleeing the country? Is the threat of genocide being exaggerated—or ignored?
David Benatar
· 9 min read
How “Sensitivity Readers” Made Modern Fiction Boring
A critical look at how well-intentioned editorial “sensitivity” can narrow creative risk-taking and homogenise contemporary fiction.
Adam Szetela
· 14 min read
MAGA’s Weak Gods
Rusty Reno and the American postliberal revolt against the postwar consensus.
Matt Johnson
· 23 min read
Why Britain Signed a Treaty with the Māori—but Not with Australia’s Aboriginal Peoples
Why did Britain negotiate a treaty with Māori chiefs in New Zealand but claim Australia as terra nullius—“land belonging to no one”?
Zoe Booth, Sean Welsh
· 7 min read
The Murder of Iryna Zarutska | Media Bias, Ideology & Selective Outrage
Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?
Zoe Booth, Jukka Savolainen
· 8 min read
Melbourne’s Crime Wave Explained: What Went Wrong in Australia’s ‘Most Liveable City’?
Once celebrated as the world’s most liveable city, Melbourne is now confronting a surge in violent crime, youth gang activity, and public disorder. What happened — and why?
Zoe Booth, Andrew Bushnell
· 12 min read
The Jewel in the Crown
‘The Man Who Would Be King’ turns fifty.
Graham Daseler
· 21 min read
Red Sheep
An impressive new biography of Jessica Mitford emphasises her sceptical and anti-authoritarian personality. But this was only half of the picture.
Ron Capshaw
· 10 min read
Podcast #313: Jesse Brown’s Rude Awakening
In an interview with Jonathan Kay, Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown discusses how an anti-Israel faction within his own subscriber base tried to cancel him after he began speaking out about antisemitism.
Quillette
· 45 min read
Against Utopianism
The world is not waiting for our utopian visions to make sense of it and order it. Liberal democracy works when it assumes as much.
Dustin N. Sharp
· 8 min read
The Line Dividing Good and Evil
What we can learn from the moral and literary failings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and James Baldwin.
Megan Gafford
· 8 min read