A collection of 108 posts
Every layer of institutional knowledge validated this public-health technology. Yet it’s being overruled based on a politically torqued misreading of what vaccines are supposed to do.
The Constance Holden Memorial Address, 2025.
Nurturing an alternative power structure in this kind of politically stunted society will be the work of generations. It can’t be summoned into existence by Western leaders seeking to appease domestic constituencies.
An absurd trial, a prurient media circus, and a failure of feminist ethics.
Thanks to the US Supreme Court, America’s helping professions—including medicine, education, and psychology—may finally adopt an evidence-based approach to treating trans-identified children.
An interview with Francis Fukuyama.
Men aren’t the only ones susceptible to extremist thinking.
As a dissident Iranian, I support Israel’s efforts to weaken the Ayatollahs’ regime. I’m not alone in this.
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.
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.
If we hadn’t spent so long pretending that ‘trans women are women,’ the growing political movement to align our laws with biological reality wouldn’t have been necessary.
Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.
Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.
Joe Sacco’s graphic works provide vivid and moving depictions of the terrible suffering in the Strip. But his accounts of the causes of that suffering are simplistic and one-sided in the extreme.