Strange New Sci Fi
If truth is the first casualty of war, then perhaps good fiction is the first casualty of culture war.
Johnny Schmidt
· 17 min read
Are We Dating the Same Guy?
Women create whisper networks to keep themselves safe from antisocial male behaviour. But unfortunately, such networks can be highjacked by our antisocial female peers.
Amy Eileen Hamm
· 5 min read
China’s Manufactured Fukushima Panic
The CCP has not missed an opportunity to inflame fears about its Japanese neighbor.
Aaron Sarin
· 10 min read
The Immigration Conundrum
Migration from the developing world to the West will continue until and unless international development can improve the societies people are leaving.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Huns to the North. Romans to the South
In the second instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the events that sparked the fateful Gothic invasion of the Roman Empire.
Herbert Bushman
· 25 min read
Saving Liberalism from ‘The Identity Trap’: An Interview with Yascha Mounk
In an acclaimed new book, the German-American political scientist traces the rise of illiberal intellectual movements among modern progressives.
Jonathan Kay
· 14 min read
Inescapable Disparities
Thomas Sowell’s new book reminds us that the world has never been a level playing field and we will not be able to engineer one.
Hannah Gal
· 12 min read
Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time
The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 9 min read
The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell
Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.
James Huffman
· 9 min read
Sex Discrimination Without Sex
Sex, according to the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner, means almost nothing at all.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 10 min read
Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health
A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 20 min read
History Matters
A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit.
Joel Kotkin
· 16 min read
Economics is Not a Game of Monopoly
The standard textbook model of monopoly economics only applies to the real world in a narrow range of circumstances.
Saul Zimet
· 7 min read