The Women of 7 October
In that moment, time stood still. There was no context, no history, no argument, no discourse. There was only pain.
Iona Italia
· 4 min read
Narrated
A collection of 88 posts
Stoicism: A Life-Changing Philosophy
Stoicism is a workout that builds emotional strength, a caulking of the timbers to enable us to weather the coming storms—a preparation we make precisely because the ocean voyage is so rewarding.
Iona Italia
· 23 min read
The Totalitarian Artist: Politics vs Beauty
After Duchamp, the art world came to view the pursuit of beauty as naïve and gravitated toward political art in their search for meaning. But this is a Faustian bargain: you can have meaning, but you do not get to make it for yourself.
Megan Gafford
· 27 min read
Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary
Atef Abu Saif’s ‘Don’t Look Left’ provides a vivid account of the horrors of daily life in the Gaza Strip, yet omits to mention Hamas’s role in the war.
Benny Morris
· 15 min read
I Blew Up My Lucrative Public-Service Career (And So Can You)
A veteran of British Columbia’s public-sector workforce explains how DEI enforcers forced him to choose between keeping his job and honouring his values.
Nick Osmond-Jones
· 23 min read
Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments
How to effectively counter some perennial arguments against free speech.
Greg Lukianoff
· 14 min read
A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology
Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.
Paul Berman
· 41 min read
Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary
Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies.
Richard Dawkins
· 12 min read
The Case for Life on Mars
Settling Mars isn’t just about making humanity a multi-planetary species. It is about improving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone on Earth.
Stephen Fleming
· 15 min read
Melvin Lasky: Diary of a Cold Warrior
Melvin Lasky was an indefatigable defender of the liberal spirit during the recovery of postwar Germany.
Oscar Clarke
· 13 min read
The Professor, His Nemesis, and a Scandal at Oberlin
The story of how a liberal college promoted and defended an Iranian Islamist and betrayed its own values.
Roya Hakakian
· 31 min read
Disuniting Australia
What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam?
Alan Davison
· 17 min read
Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of ‘Trans Inclusion’
For three years, Edinburgh’s rape-crisis centre was run by a male CEO who lectured sex-assault victims and staff about their ‘prejudice’ against the male body. How was this allowed to happen?
Joan Smith
· 17 min read
Remembering 9 Thermidor, the End of the Terror
9 Thermidor was a victory over a bloodthirsty tyranny claiming to act in the name of progressive ideals.
Cathy Young
· 22 min read
Empathy for the Devil: The Fantasy of ‘Progressive Realism’
Realists may believe international relations is all about mindless forces balancing and smashing into each other, but it’s actually about ideology, institutions, history, and the personalities of human beings.
Matt Johnson
· 20 min read