Friday 19 November 2021

Eager to Appropriate

On the Supreme Court decisions that created ‘Indian Country.’



Infamous Assassins of the Middle Ages

The stories of a martyr, a booby trap, and the first assassination in British history.



From Fire to Floods

Climate change hits Canada’s fragile supply chain.



Naturalists Are Buzzing With Hope

Bee expert finds 800,000 wild honeybees thriving in ancient English forest.



Chinese Communist Aggression

Second Chinese village along Arunachal border.



Trans Politics Has Driven The Left Insane

Labour MPs and lefty journalists are now denying basic biological facts.



Turns Out, Harvard Students Aren’t That Smart After All

Affirmative action for the rich and privileged.



Kamala Harris

The collapse.



Trudeau’s Reckless Spending

Means decades of deficits.



The Myth

Of the classically educated elite.



Wednesday 17 November 2021

Those Who Work

What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants.



Our Strange Addiction

The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions.



Lies, Lies, Lies

A case study in journalistic malpractice.



FW de Klerk and The Destruction of Apartheid

How the former South African president ushered in a new era.





‘A Tipping Point’

How poor forestry fuels floods and fires in western Canada.



The Mind’s Body Problem

The belief that we’re different from other organisms may be an incurable human illusion.



Before Oxford’s Library Was the Finest Institutional Library in Europe

It was… kind of a dump.



Desperately Seeking Sebald

A writer’s quest.



What Are The Limits Of Logic?

How a groundbreaking logician lost control.



Walt Whitman’s Letter To A Female Admirer

Is the nicest romantic rejection in history.



Sunday 14 November 2021

Going Into The City

Where American Indians found hospitality, hatred, and many noxious smells and noises.



The Memes That Made Us

The origin story of ‘one nation, indivisible.’



Group Of Wild Boars Roaming In Pickering, Ontario

Could be cause for concern.



‘A World Gone Mad’

Upscale LA neighborhood wrestles with worsening homeless crisis.



French Municipality Covered Statue of Naked Woman

To avoid offending Muslims.



The White Heat of Conviction

There is nothing judicious, careful, or patient in this new biography of D.H. Lawrence, which is exactly how Lawrence would have wanted it.



‘Woke Racism’

A review.



China And India Are Right

To keep coal.



Would America Survive a Civil War?

The US army could not withstand an insurgency.



Looking for Life on Mars

An astrobiologist and a director on the joys and challenges of filming space science.