For all its decorative asides about predatory male sexuality, ‘The Substance’ is most coherently understood as a morality tale about the folly of feminist illusions.
It is easy to create a negative image of intelligence research because most people know very little about the topic. But distorting intelligence research does a disservice to the field’s hard-working scientists and the general public.
The pro-Palestinian camp have spent more than 75 years perfecting their 30-second elevator pitch. It’s time for Israel to catch up.
The politicisation of medicine has had terrible unintended consequences.
“Believe those who seek the truth,” André Gide once wrote, “doubt those who find it.” The same can be said of falsehoods.
A detailed look at the past year of war between Israel and its adversaries, as the battleground has shifted from Gaza to Lebanon and now to Iran.
A business-communications coach reflects on the connections between her college-era Marxist beliefs and the identity-based fixations that have come to dominate her industry.
Al Pacino’s personal life has been a bit of a train wreck, but his new memoir leaves no doubt that acting has been the most important thing in his life.
Lale Gül’s autobiographical novel about a young Muslim woman living in the Netherlands has led to death threats and ostracism. But it is a work of admirable intelligence and courage.
Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves.
Iona Italia talks to Jack Despain Zhou (aka Tracing Woodgrains) about the decline of standards at Wikipedia as a result of the obsessive efforts of ideologically motivated editors.
Todd Phillips’s unfairly reviled sequel raises interesting questions about the artistic licence auteurs take with well-known properties.
Helen Pluckrose has produced a practical guide to dealing with sticky workplace situations, alongside a clear intellectual account of social justice ideology.
Boris Johnson got a couple of critical things right, but he never could or would have become a good prime minister.