Too Much Monkey Business
The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today.
Graham Daseler
· 21 min read
Narrated
A collection of 127 posts
The Teaching Problem
The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model.
John Tagg
· 17 min read
Conflicting Visions of Peace
Netanyahu’s Nobel Prize gesture masks serious diplomatic divisions over Iran’s nuclear programme and the future of Gaza’s devastated population.
Benny Morris
· 8 min read
Why the Islamic Republic Must Fall
As a dissident Iranian, I support Israel’s efforts to weaken the Ayatollahs’ regime. I’m not alone in this.
Armin Navabi
· 8 min read
Purity, Profit, and Politics
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.
Steve Salerno
· 22 min read
Glamourising Violence at Glastonbury
Bob Vylan’s “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury reveal how Britain’s economic despair has radicalised a generation and threatens to revive ancient hatreds.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
Gentrifying the Intifada
Zohran Mamdani’s brand of socialism appeals to the luxury beliefs of New York’s middle classes. If his preferred policies are implemented, New Yorkers will suffer—and the poorest of them will be most impacted.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
A Fragile Peace
The Israel-Iran conflict may already be over, following the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But the future is deeply uncertain.
Benny Morris
· 14 min read
Gonzo Bros
Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.
Frank Celia
· 29 min read
The Enlightenment’s Gravediggers
When Westerners hate the West.
Maarten Boudry
· 17 min read
Destroying Iran’s Nuclear Arsenal
Israel faces two major challenges: destroying the Iranian enrichment plant at Fordow and locating and eliminating the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium. For the first, it will need US assistance.
Benny Morris
· 13 min read
Beheading the Snake
The Israeli attack on Iran is in line with its longstanding policy of never allowing its neighbouring enemies to acquire nuclear weapons. But it is also the latest episode in the wider war against Israel launched in late 2023 by Iran’s proxies.
Benny Morris
· 11 min read
The Globalised Intifada
For at least some, globalising the Intifada means exporting the tactics of Hamas to the West, thus threatening peaceful liberal societies everywhere.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
Classical Liberalism Without Strong Gods
How open societies can meet the challenge of meaning.
Roger Partridge
· 15 min read
The Women Excluded from Parsi Life
The Zoroastrians of India are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community.
Nev March
· 16 min read