What an Eighth Grader Taught Me About Status
Comparing yourself to others locks you into a contest you can never win and makes other people’s wins feel like your defeats.
Robert Lynch
· 9 min read
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A collection of 108 posts
The Menace of a Respectable Hatred
What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
Yuki Zeman
· 16 min read
The Greatest Tradition of All
Apart from the Declaration and Constitution, there is perhaps no more essentially American document than Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet ‘Common Sense.’
Matt Johnson
· 8 min read
How Canada Jumped the Rails on ’Gender-Affirming Care’: A Quillette Investigation
The career arc of Canadian Paediatric Society president Natasha Johnson helps explain why her country has become such an outlier in the treatment of trans-identified children.
Jonathan Kay
· 24 min read
How Europe Became the World Champion of Heat Deaths
The continent with the lowest number of hot days leads the world in heat mortality. Europe’s self-inflicted aversion to air conditioning betrays a deeper hostility to energy and to progress itself.
Maarten Boudry
· 6 min read
Perceptions of Weakness
In his panic-stricken effort to disentangle America from the Middle Eastern mess, Trump now appears to be falling into line with Tehran’s wishes.
Benny Morris
· 13 min read
The Party of the Worker Is Now the Party of the Bureaucrat
The old fight was labour versus capital. The real fight now is between those who create value and those who administer it, and Australia's new budget has picked the wrong side.
Claire Lehmann
· 13 min read
An Electoral Reckoning at Last?
Benjamin Netanyahu’s unprecedented tenure as Israeli prime minister may be about to end.
Benny Morris
· 9 min read
The Data a Flemish TV Network Didn't Want You to See
How I read a confidential memo on live television—and what it reveals about ideological bias.
Maarten Boudry
· 10 min read
It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To
The most consequential weakness of philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock’s new polemic against assisted dying is its failure to engage with the empirical record.
Rosalind Arden
· 14 min read
Manosfear
Theroux’s documentary on the Manosphere tells half the story—the loudly accessible, politically convenient half.
Robert King
· 17 min read
Anti-Zionism as Redemptive Racism
Contemporary anti-Zionism encodes a totalising worldview that blends the tributaries of Nazi, communist, and Islamist anti-Zionism into a single stream.
Shalom Lappin
· 15 min read
Never Neverland
The new Michael Jackson biopic and the campaign to whitewash the King of Pop’s reputation.
Andrew Hammel
· 32 min read
What Is the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor?
Creating NGOs that misuse the language of human rights is an effective strategy for advancing terrorist goals.
Gerald M. Steinberg
· 12 min read
Nicholas Kristof and the Pornography of Accusation
Investigating abuse is a duty. Laundering propaganda is not.
Yuki Zeman
· 14 min read