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When a gap opens between what the law punishes and what society believes should be punished, people lose respect for the law and are more likely to violate it.
The positions adopted by the think tank’s scholars during the war in Gaza are illustrative of its overall Middle East agenda: appease Iran and demonise Israel.
The Guardian’s reporting on a gathering of heterodox thinkers is truly lamentable journalism.
Western societies stand on the brink of a great reversion towards a demographically and economically stagnant society reminiscent of the Dark Ages.
It is time for leftists to forego ideology and embrace a people-centred politics.
Since 7 October, Nicholas Kristof has produced a torrent of outraged testimony that betrays a refusal to grapple with the world as it is.
We are at a crossroads—either we prepare for a world of identity politics and populism, or we restore settlement politics in Australia.
The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.
The British establishment’s China policy resembles a man periodically waking only to fall asleep again.
A dissection of the ICC’s warrant application reveals that obvious liberties have been taken with the truth.
Mearsheimer and Walt still don’t understand American support for Israel.
The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.
There are at least three things that people might mean by ‘socially constructed’: that something is social, rather than natural; contextual, rather than universal; or that its importance has been inflated.
We should celebrate the death of the Butcher of Tehran, but Iran’s future remains fraught with uncertainty.
Are concerns about cultured meat justified?