Student Scapegoats
The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive.
Carl Skutsch
· 8 min read
Life’s Ancient Bottleneck
Of the six chemical elements necessary for life, phosphorus is the rarest. It determines what grows and shrinks, who lives and dies. By disrupting the planet’s phosphate cycle, unchecked factory farming could have apocalyptic consequences.
Jack Lohmann
· 8 min read
Know Thine Enemy
An insider’s naive and myopic account of China’s system and intentions.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
Qatar: Futuristic City, Medieval Morals
Donald Trump has an opportunity to influence the Qatari monarchy away from supporting jihad and towards promoting peace. But will he take it?
John Aziz
· 7 min read
The Art of Social Engineering
When British sculptor Thomas J Price explains that his “strategy of inclusion” will counter the “endless stream of limiting tropes and identities for Black people,” he is inadvertently mimicking totalitarian injunctions.
Julia Friedman
· 6 min read
The Mars Vanity Project
Elon Musk’s Mars plans are not just illusory, they are dangerous.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 10 min read
A Disunited Kingdom
New SNP leadership and an unpopular Labour Party may yet force Scottish independence back onto the political agenda.
John Lloyd
· 6 min read
Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?
Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.
Ellie Avishai
· 15 min read
Podcast #285: The Green Delusion
Iona Italia talks to engineer Paul Brown about the hidden costs of renewables and the skewed incentives that are driving some countries towards unsustainable energy policies.
Paul Brown, Quillette, Iona Italia
· 32 min read
Wendake or Bust
In the 26th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes Jesuit efforts to study and proselytise the Wendat people amid the Indigenous political tumult of the 1630s.
Greg Koabel
· 20 min read
Truth Telling and Colonial History
The colonisation of Australia was neither a peaceful settlement nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agriculturalists.
Sean Welsh
· 16 min read
The WEF’s Gender Disinformation Campaign
A combination of activism and evolved cognitive bias results in suboptimal social and economic policies.
David C. Geary
· 14 min read
Playing with Economic Fire
The Trump administration has a NatCon economics problem.
Phillip W. Magness
· 10 min read
Israel Up Close
My travels through a demonised democracy.
Maarten Boudry
· 10 min read