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
A Vindication of Bjorn Lomborg
Lomborg’s experience shows what happens when a researcher challenges a powerful narrative with inconvenient numbers.
Marian L. Tupy
· 7 min read
Cis, White, and Gay
In a new book, Ben Appel describes his journey from closeted Christian cult child, to recovering addict, to social-justice warrior, to self-confessed ‘gender heretic.’
Ben Appel
· 14 min read
The New Medievals
The bones of our conspiracies haven’t changed, though their details are different.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
Do Androids Dream?
The philosopher John Searle’s concept of Intentionality and his Chinese Room experiment reveal the differences between AI computation and human thought.
Sean Welsh
· 12 min read
After Liberalism
The core principles of liberalism—freedom and equality—are insufficient for the good life. We need to supplement them with a more robust, metaphysically thicker understanding of human nature and the good.
Alan S. Rome
· 17 min read
The Ingratitude of the Well-Fed
We need to cultivate an appreciation for the abundance that modernity has bestowed instead of taking it for granted.
Maarten Boudry
· 13 min read
America’s Public Health Is Under Attack
The hepatitis B vaccine episode is a preview of what happens when scientific institutions are corrupted by people who reject the scientific method itself.
Henry I. Miller
· 7 min read
The Middle East Powder Keg
Fragile ceasefires are holding for now, but the volatile region may be headed for another explosion next year.
Benny Morris
· 14 min read