Folk, Feedback, and Fury
Neil Young is eighty.
David Cohen
· 16 min read
Dawn of the Beaver Wars
In the 28th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the deadly conflicts that emerged in the late 1630s between the Wendat and Haudenosaunee confederacies.
Greg Koabel
· 23 min read
Islamist Violence and Official Silence
A month after the lethal Manchester synagogue attack, the UK still refuses to take its number one terror threat seriously.
Daniel Allington
· 15 min read
Podcast #311: Finding Humour in Dark Places
Jonathan Kay speaks with comedian Matthew Pettit, who candidly tells audiences about the severe childhood abuse that once propelled him into a life of sexual confusion, meth addiction, and crime.
Quillette
· 2 min read
Australia Needs More Capital Cities
Just as the Dutch reclaimed physical land to build the Netherlands, Australia should reclaim political land by creating new states to ease the country's housing crisis.
Harry Lehmann
· 9 min read
Holding Out for a Hero
From Achilles to Anakin Skywalker, the messiah myth has evolved from religious prophecy to cautionary tale.
Stewart Slater
· 12 min read
The Melbourne Crimewave
Andrew Bushnell, Iona Italia
· 1 min read
We Need to Talk About Trans-Identified Killers
The Westman school massacre, explained.
Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman, Zoe Booth
· 1 min read
The War on Science
Lawrence M. Krauss, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
The Enlightenment's Gravediggers
Maarten Boudry, Quillette
· 1 min read
Power and Its Malcontents
Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it.
Brian Stewart
· 25 min read
A Shrivelling Continent
As the nationalist parties of the New Right gain ever greater influence in Europe, the future of the European Union is looking increasingly precarious.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
The Feminist, the Filmmaker, and the Führer
Susan Sontag’s 1974 essay about Leni Riefenstahl and fascist aesthetics displayed the critic at her most stiflingly moralistic and aristocratic.
Annalisa Zox-Weaver
· 25 min read
Starving for Headlines
How the media perpetuates Gaza’s suffering.
Aaron Travis
· 10 min read
Britain Must Be More Honest With Itself
In a country struggling to come to terms with violent acts by recent immigrants, the dark mistruths of bigots have been replaced with the cheerful mistruths of multiculturalists.
Ben Sixsmith
· 9 min read